Pronunciations (was: And how do you pronounce "csh"?)

[Paul Gillingwater]

In article <440 at nixba.UUCP> mike at nixba.UUCP (Mike Lyons) writes:
>As you can see from my header, I work here in Germany.  I'm always debating
>with my colleagues over what the "correct" pronunciation for various UNIX
>things are. 
I was working in Spain recently with some UNIX people, and this is 
some of what I heard:

UNIX:	you - niece	(The X is a sibilant when postfixed)
XENIX:	chen - ees	(X becomes a "ch" sound when prefixed)
vi:	vee		(that's 'i' as in Si)
uucico:	ooh - ooh - thee - tho (that's "th" as in cloth)

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