On 15/07/2018, Warren Toomey <wkt(a)tuhs.org> wrote (in part): I was intrigued by BMK's comment that "ed" was never spokend as "ed" by "those in the know", which leads me to wonder how things were spoken. Here is a litte list of how I pronounce things [with others' versions in brackets]. Others will no doubt be aghast. ls - "list" sometimes "l s"; rm - "remove"; chmod - "change mode" [but I have heard "ch-mode"] ar - "archive" [others have said "arrr"] N.