Pronunciations (was: And how do you pronounce "csh"?)
Paul Gillingwater
paul at csnz.co.nz
Fri Oct 27 07:44:21 AEST 1989
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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