From: Dan Armak (ermak_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Fri 11 Apr 2003 - 01:10:32 IDT
On Friday 11 April 2003 00:58, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 11:58:17PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote:
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> > On Thursday 10 April 2003 23:02, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> > > Linus pronounces Linux just that - Linux, not Linix, or Linoox or any
> > > other evil way - as people who sticked around to see the movie at the
> > > end know :-)
> >
> > Right, sorry. I read the 'how to pronounce linux' page(s) out there a long
tie
> > ago and must have mixed up things...
> >
> > So where does the 'linix' style come from? Rhyme with minix? Why do some
> > people talk like that?
>
> Because ending the names of Unix versions (derivatives?) with "ix" (or at
> lease "X") is a very old tradition. AIX, IRIX, DG/UX, HP/UX, Minix,
> Ultrix, Xenix ...
OK, guess I deserved that answer. Of course it's obvious when you think about
it that way, as in 'why would people make this particular pronunciation error
and not a different one (lie-nucks anyone?)'. I was thinking more along the
lines of 'why would people make any error at all and confuse me', so I must
be far too tired to go on posting... off to bed.
-- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://cvs.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key
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