[rescue] those who should be shot

Gary Nichols garynichols at mysun.com
Fri Mar 1 09:17:08 CST 2002


> > What about "etc"?  "et-see"...
> 
> Most people I know say etcetera, rather than pronouncing the
> abbreviation.

Heretics!  It's "et-see"!  I groan everytime I hear the other way.
Take this conference I'm at for example - how many possible ways can 
someone NOT pronounce Linux correctly?  Listen to Linus' sound-byte... 
he says "lynn-ucks" so that's how I'm going to say it.  Here are the 
variants I've heard this week: (*groan*)
Lie-nucks
Lie(1 second pause)-nucks
Lean-ucks
Lie-nicks

And then there's me, the only unix-type person in the audience slamming 
my head into my desk.  

(disclaimer:  I don't really care how people pronounce it, I just 
needed something to bitch about this morning because the hotel food is 
making me ill)



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