Pronunciations (was: And how do you pronounce "csh"?)
Frank Wales
frank at zen.co.uk
Mon Oct 30 02:23:38 AEST 1989
On this naming business, I had a theory years ago that the names of
the editors ex, vi and sed were a pun on the notion that they were the
last words in editing: hence the pronunciation of their names as sounding
like the last letters of the alphabet (needs an English accent to work).
Consequently, my normal pronunciations of them are: eks, vy and sehd.
Isn't logic wonderful, especially when it's wrong?
Some other local "sayings":
MS-DOS Domesdos (something we put down toilets here)
FIONREAD eff-eye-oh-en-read (logical); fyonread (quick)
FIOGSAIOOWN huh?
In article <2106 at se-sd.NCR.COM> rns at se-sd.NCR.COM (Rick Schubert) writes:
>Now a real wizard test: How do you pronounce Kernighan?
"Sir."
Now, how do you pronounce Knuth?
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