Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 15:32:29 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Roop Nanuwa <roop@gw.carpoolbc.com> Cc: David Talkington <dtalk@prairienet.org>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>, Peter Lai <PeterL@resnet.uconn.edu>, Joel Bjork <u98jobj@stud.hh.se> Subject: RE: Pronunciations Message-ID: <XFMail.001130153229.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011301244310.6717-100000@gw.carpoolbc.com>
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On 30-Nov-00 Roop Nanuwa wrote: > > This is just me of course, but my pronunciations are as follows: > > /bin pronounced like sin > /usr pronounced like user > /src pronounced like source > /etc pronounced like the letters e-t-c > /sbin pronounced like the letter s plus bin > fsck pronounced like f-sack I used to say the letters: f-s-c-k, but now I usually say "fisk". (rhymes with disk) > Now here are some I'm not too sure about: > sh is just the letters s-h Yeah, s-h > but then is csh pronounced c-s-h or cash? I usually say C-shell > tcsh: I call it t-c-s-h.. is that right or is it t-cash? either TC-shell, or "teesh", some people call csh "seesh" in the same fashion. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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