On Fri, 2 Feb 96 10:21:03 -0800, [log in to unmask] wrote: |Jeff Kell writes: |> For example, I have heard: |> |> /etc - "ett-see" as in "ett-see mott-dee" (/etc/motd) |> chmod - "cha-mode" (sort of rhymes with "commode") | |These seem to be universal. I say ch-mod rather than ch-mode personally. Me too. |> ! - "bang" | |This goes way back, and is certainly not specific to unix. Haven't any of |you people read the Jargon File? If you have Windows, go get it from: |http://www.denkart.com/jargon It's good for you. Hence "shh-bang" to pronounce #! which is the sequence to place before the name of the correct shell to execute a script. |> Seems they have a phonetic "code" for otherwise gibberish phrases. I wonder |> now many others there are? Like "gnu". Is this pronounced "nue/new" like |> the animal, or is it "ga-NEW"? | |The G is pronounced. Otherwise people could have trouble understanding |exactly what you mean when you say "I used the new C compiler". | |> Another conversational quirk is "www". | |I just say 'Web" whenever possible. When reading URLs to people you are |usually stuck with spelling out "http://www." all the time, but since |they expect this, you can say it in a fast mutter pretty quickly and they |will still know what you said. I heard (just last night) two new ways to handle this one. One of them is "sextuple-you" which I find interesting but cumbersome. The other is "triple-dub" which is easy to say but presumes that the listener already knows what you are saying. I prefer to say "web" whenever possible and shorten "http://www." to a (run together) "dub-ya-dub-ya-dub-ya-dot". |Gee. Kewl! L8r.... ;) -- Jeff Woods <[log in to unmask]> [PGP key available] Women and cats will do as they please. And men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. -- Robert A. Heinlein (1907 -1988)