more silly Enlishism's

You guys don't pronounce UNIX as yoo-nuhx, do you?


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On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 alandd@mindspring.com wrote:

> lee-nuhx is more correct, I think. I generally say lyn-uhx.
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> Go here: http://www.linux.org/info/index.html and click the "English version" link for the "How to pronounce Linux." It is a recording of Linux himself saying Linux.
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> I chalk the "lee" sound to the his accent when speaking english and 'english-ize' the way he says it with my "lyn"
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> Alan (just gleefully tripping down the path of trivia...)
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> plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us wrote:
> > Lynn-icks
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> On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Nancy Sollars wrote:
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> > Hey people,
> >
> > Thought id share this one with you,
> >
> > Ive been monitoring the Bristol BBLug as alot of stuff goes on there,
> >
> > The topic on this one is, is linux pronounced lynn-ux or line-ux a newbie asked which prompted this one which i thought was cracking :-
> >
> > post reads
> >
> > > > much snipped
> > > >
> > > > The funny thing is that in English/American the name Linus is pronounced
> > > > Line-us :)
> > > >
> > > > Dave/bt
> > >
> > > Which is why it makes sense to call linux line-ux! :)
> > >
> > > Snodge
> >
> > I like it - I like it! :)
> >
> > Dave/bt
> >
> > p.s. I've always "understood" (apart from the 40,001 exceptions to all rules
> > of english-as-she-is spoke) that a single consonant meant the previous vowel
> > is looonngg, and a double consonant meant the previous vowel is short -
> > except in the frozen wastes north of Watford, where all vowels are short on
> > account of the frostbite that ensues if you keep your mouth open too long!
> >
> > -----------------
> > Nige
> >
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