On Tue, Feb 4, 2020, 4:28 PM Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote:
Unix room pronunciation:

ed: Ed or E.D.; both were common
chroot: cheroot 
chgrp: ch-group
chown: rhymes with "clone"
chmod: rhymes with "god"
creat: cree-at
nroff: enn-roff (because it was the descendant of roff)
troff: tee-roff
vi: (for those few who used it) V.I. I pronounced it V.I. but often thought of Roman numerals.

Those match the way I heard them at school in the 80s...

Warner

Also a side note about vi: Plan 9 had another program with that name. http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/1/vi. The 'v' meant mips for obscure but consistent reasons. Yet another reason the command was pronounced V.I. regardless of its function.

-rob