On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 01:55:48PM -0600, Mike Miller wrote: > On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Jim Crumley wrote: > > >ssh - "ess ess aitch" (spell it out) > >vi - "vee eye" or "vie" > >Linux - "LIE nucks", though I am starting to say "lih nucks" > > LIH nuhks - a good American approximation. Linus actually pronounces it > a bit more like LEE nooks, but he has an accent! ;-) Part of the reason that I don't buy "lih nucks" is that Linus does have an accent in the classic recording of him saying Linux. > LIE nucks, though accepted, is not really correct. I realize that its not the accepted version and I am trying to convert myself to the more accepted version. The argument (which I know has been lost by this point) is that Linux is based on Linus which in English is pronounced "LIE nus", so the pronunciation should be "LIE nucks". Following the English pronunciation seems to be the typcial method for pronouncing words in English that are based on names. Einsteinium is pronounced in Engish the way that Einstein is pronounced in English, not the way Einstein is pronounced in German. -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ Never laugh at live dragons |