On Wednesday 09 March 2005 02:32 pm, Mike Miller wrote: > On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Chris Smith wrote: > > > how about the /etc directory? > > eeet see > > or do you say etcetera > > or EEE TEEE CEEE ? (E.T.C) > > Google is good... > > http://www.google.com/search?q=unix+%22etc+pronounced%22 > > It's "et see". I say 'et cetera', others around me use 'et see'. If /etc is 'et see', is /usr 'uss er'? /tmp 'timp'? How about pronouncing /lib? lib- as in librarian (prolly correct but awkward) or lib- as in liberation (less awkward)? they should add a pronunciation standard to FHS... -- -dave Dave Carlson <dave at math.umn.edu> Systems Administrator School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota http://www.math.umn.edu PGP/GPG Fingerprint: C3D0 9962 1E98 B742 132D 0E1A CE11 7C4B 5309 97A7 (visit http://www.gnupg.org for more information) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20050309/2309a661/attachment.pgp