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[Martin WHEELER]

Oh goody, another excuse for an online argy-bargy!


On 28 Jul 2003, s~TV wrote:

> this is exactly where i got my pronunciation of the word linux over 2
> years ago.
> how would you "see" it in phonetic speech then?
>
> i still say it sounds like "lee-nooks" to me

<evil grin> Is this where I pull out my old phonetics notes which detail
experiments in which the same sounds re-played to different people were
systematically 'heard' differently?  [True.]

I *might* agree for the Swedish soundbite -- but not for the English
one.  (But then I hear English as tortured French anyway.) </evil grin>


> lots of people say "line - ux" but this is probably a conspiracy started
> by microsoft just to divide an otherwise peaceful community.

Definitely.  Good thinking.

And none of this takes into consideration those who insist on
pronouncing it 'lunix', does it?
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