[TUHS] pronouncing *nix formulas (was: screen editors)

[Ed Carp]

Sex the UNIX way
# unzip
# strip
# touch
# finger
# mount
# fsck
# more
# yes
# umount
# sleep

On 2/5/20, Rob Pike <robpike at gmail.com> wrote:
> Frodo (Ted Kowalski) told me it was originally spelled, and pronounced,
> fuck, for good reason, but he soon realized it was going to be used by
> others and changed one letter. It was just letters after that.
>
> -rob
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 1:34 AM Clem cole <clemc at ccc.com> 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
>>
>