Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 22:00:57 GMT From: john@goodleaf.net To: Chameleon <swen@wavefire.com> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Pronunciations Message-ID: <20001201220057.5C4D75BB0@clyde.goodleaf.net> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20001201085118.03ea4c60@mail.wavefire.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1001130173532.96910E-100000@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20001201085118.03ea4c60@mail.wavefire.com>
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I've checked three dictionaries and all report the pronunciation as til duh (where the duh is a schwa). I like /etc rhymes with "mets." But then I also, on purely aesthetic grounds, prefer "leye' nucks" to "lin' ucks" which sounds to me like a poorly implemented scripting language at best--not manly at all. ;-) -John Chameleon writes: > At 03:32 PM 11/30/00, John Baldwin wrote: > > >On 30-Nov-00 Chris Hill wrote: > > > On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > > > > >> /etc "etcetera" (some reprobates say E T C) > > > > > > Some even worse reprobates (myself included) say ET-see. > > > >I prefer ET-see as well. > > > > >> Or "#" > > >> > > >> The English say "hash", some australians say "crunch" > > >> Americans says (bizarrely) "pound" .. yes yes I know why :) > > > > > > And there are always the pedants who say "octothorpe." > > > > > > What about ~? In grade school I learned that it was pronounced "TIL-duh" > > > but I have a friend who calls it "TIL-day." > > > >I say TIL-day, but I'm just a youngin' > > :) > i'm just a youngin too, > but i've always said TIL-dee > > Swen > > >-- > > > >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 > > -- > "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines" > -- Anon > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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