On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Dan Rue wrote: > I personally think that in the spirit of open source and > there's-more-than-one-way-to-do-it, pronunciation should be an open > sport. Nobody cares what Stallman says, anyway (ain't no way i'm saying > Guh-Nome). Go for it. I am more conventional about pronunciation because I think consistency facilitates communication. I actually do care what Stallman says about the pronunciations of words he makes up like "POSIX". When a student asks me how a word is pronounced, I like to give him/her an answer instead of saying "however you like." Mike