[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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