[Klug-general] Pronunciation of Linux

[rich-ayres at tiscali.co.uk]

I Have never met anyone of importance in the Linux Hierarchy, and am certainly not one to judge anyone by such a trivial criterion as to  how they pronounce Linux. Personally I pronounce it "Not Microsoft" but then I have no expertise to back me up.
     rich ;-)




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Date: 30/06/2009 20:22 

To: "Kent Linux User Group - General Topics"<kent at mailman.lug.org.uk>

Subj: Re: [Klug-general] Pronunciation of Linux



Here here, Mike. No one could refute that Linus the character in "Peanuts" is pronounced "Lee-nus".
When I met Linus at the Kernel summit in Cambridge with Karl Lattimer (not to be confused with "nice Karl") Linus and all other members of the "Git" group pronounced Linux as Lee-nux. Sorry KLUGGERS, but as far as I am concerned, when I hear a person pronounce "Lie-nux" alarm bells go off and I think that this person is from one of these camps:

a) secretly has a vested interest in using Micro$haft crapware
b) has only just discovered Linux
c) has clearly never met Linus nor knows who he is
d) is a newbie
e) is a half-hearted Linux user (with some very very notable exceptions)
f) is a Linux guru genius, but just prefers to pronounce is differently in the spirit of being anti-establishment... and pedantic

 
I hope this rant does not spawn a mass debate, since I already have RSI from too much wrist action. Ahem.

 
2009/6/30 Mike Evans <mike at tandem.f9.co.uk>


There are only a few things certain about pronunciation in English.  One
is that spelling and pronunciation are only vaguely related. Diversity

is a great thing: so long as communication is successful.

I note that there are also alternative pronunciations of Debian: with
Deebian and Debbian being the most common, and Ubuntu seems to drift
between Youbuntu and Oobuntu, depending on how authentically African the

speaker wishes to sound.

There is a long tradition of the English using pronunciation as a
distinguishing identifier of class, education and origin.  Thus it is
that a northerner will declare that has home is his kassle, whereas a

southerner's home is his cahsle.  Both will think they are right and the
other wrong, which gives each the opportunity to feel in some way
superior to the other.

Personally I choose the pronunciation favoured by Linus Torvalds, simply

because he created the word.  I don't look down on people who prefer
another pronunciation and will happily have a conversation pronouncing
it one way with someone who pronounces it another. The people I do sneer

at are the ones like the owner of our local copy shop.  When I said that
I use Linnux she looked confused and then said 'oh you mean Lynux'.  But
then - she is fat, sweaty and ugly as well as ignorant :)


MikeE





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