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From: bmacintyre@watsol.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: TeX pronounciation
Keywords: How, why?
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Date: 9 Sep 88 19:07:26 GMT
References: <374@polyof.UUCP>
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In article <374@polyof.UUCP> paul@polyof.UUCP (A1 Mr. Curran) writes:
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>	How does one pronounce the term "TeX."  There seem to be two
>factions, one that says it's like TEK and another that says it's TEX
>as in TEXas or TEXt.  If it's TEK howcome it's pronounced that way; I
>can't think of any english words that sound X that way.  Also it would
>seem more reasonable to say LATEX than LATEK.  Just curious.

It's TEK and LATEK ... why?  The reasons are deep and shrouded in mystery ...
( read: it says so in the manual :-)

Blair "really, that's what it said" MacIntyre
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