[TUHS] pronouncing *nix formulas

[Clem Cole]

definitely a diminutive term.

On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 11:11 AM Arthur Krewat <krewat at kilonet.net> wrote:

> Bunch of guys at Computer Graphics Lab (at New York Institute of
> Technology) back in the 80's used to call it "f-suck".
>
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> On 2/5/2020 8:35 AM, Clem cole wrote:
> > FWIW. When it was written, Ted and I used pronounced it as “fisk”
> (rhymes with “disk”), but F. S. C. K. was always acceptable to my ears.  I
> admit I smiled one time when I heard some one call it “f-sick” but that was
> not considered the proper pronunciation.
> >
> > Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not
> quite.
> >
> >> On Feb 5, 2020, at 3:45 AM, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
> >>
> >> "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> At 2020-02-04T09:40:18+0100, Sijmen J. Mulder wrote:
> >>>> markus schnalke <meillo at marmaro.de> wrote:
> >>>>> Wikipedia writes that `ed' would be pronounced ``ee-dee'' (like
> >>>>> ``vee-eye''), is that what you english speakers do?
> >>> Certainly not.  When one sees a command name that duplicates a
> >>> frequently-used diminituve of a common name, the brain is going to
> >>> select that preferentially.
> >> ISTR thinking of it and calling it e-d, along with r-m, l-n, m-v and
> >> the other two-letter commands.
> >>
> >>> (And did people really say "dee-eye-tee-roff" for "ditroff"?)
> >> I did ... Although it's "groff" and not "g-roff". :-)
> >>
> >> FWIW,
> >>
> >> Arnold
> >
>
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