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mju
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response 75 of 111:
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Jun 21 16:57 UTC 1995 |
I used to pronounce ".cshrc" as "see ess aych arr see", until I got
to CMU. The people there pronounce "see-shark", and I started
saying that, because it's much shorted.
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helmke
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response 76 of 111:
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Jun 22 00:06 UTC 1995 |
.cshrc - "dot seashell arr see"
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srw
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response 77 of 111:
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Jun 22 04:21 UTC 1995 |
Pronunciations I use:
(somewhat standard)
troff = tee roff (I agree with mdw)
chgrp = see aitch group (I agree with robh)
(non-standard - mostly derived from MIT usage I think)
etc = et see
csh = seesh
tcsh = teesh (the c is silent)
.cshrc= dot seesh are see
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bruin
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response 78 of 111:
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Jun 22 10:50 UTC 1995 |
.edu = ed you
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bruin
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response 79 of 111:
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Jun 22 10:51 UTC 1995 |
.umich = you mich
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popcorn
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response 80 of 111:
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Jun 22 12:08 UTC 1995 |
This response has been erased.
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remmers
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response 81 of 111:
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Jun 22 15:06 UTC 1995 |
Soe due eye.
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gregc
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response 82 of 111:
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Jun 22 15:09 UTC 1995 |
I agree with Valerie. I tend to spell it out as "dot see ess aych arr see".
But I've also heard "dot kush rook" used alot in the programming community and
I've starting using it alot myself.
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srw
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response 83 of 111:
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Jun 22 21:17 UTC 1995 |
I told you I was non-standard, but I like seesh-are-see, and I really
hate the rook pronunciation of the rc part (but I have certainly heard it).
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nephi
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response 84 of 111:
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Jun 23 22:37 UTC 1995 |
(Should this be linked to Agora? 8^)
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davel
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response 85 of 111:
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Jun 24 14:56 UTC 1995 |
Possibly to melvin (the "twit" thread earlier) or to enigma?
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jweiss
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response 86 of 111:
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Jun 24 20:24 UTC 1995 |
Reading this I realized that I don't pronounce all of the consistantly.
I often pronounce things like chsh as either C-H-S-H or ch sh.
Then again I'm at MIT and hang around with enough UNIX nerds that
prople generally know what I mean. :-)
I think my favorite has to be fsck tho (used to insure file system consistency
for thos who don't know) pronounced (at least be me) eff suck
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robh
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response 87 of 111:
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Jun 24 20:40 UTC 1995 |
I prefer eff-sick myself. Less open to misinterpretation. >8)
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mju
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response 88 of 111:
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Jun 24 22:20 UTC 1995 |
"fisk"
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janc
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response 89 of 111:
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Jun 25 00:30 UTC 1995 |
troff was a typesetter version of roff. It's tee-roff and anyone who sez
otherwise is a rotten egg. I call chmod "change mod", but chown is "choan".
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davel
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response 90 of 111:
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Jun 25 03:41 UTC 1995 |
Surely fsck is fizz-check?
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remmers
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response 91 of 111:
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Jun 25 08:18 UTC 1995 |
fsck = eff ess see kay
chown = see aitch own
chmod = see aitch mod
chgrp = see atich gurp
ps = pee ess
nroff = enn roff
troff = tee roff
vi = vee eye
ed = ee dee
sed = said
grep = grep
ls = ell ess
tex = tek
tcl = tickle
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gregc
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response 92 of 111:
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Jun 25 18:13 UTC 1995 |
I agree with most of john's except the following:
chown = chown (pronounce as written. "ch" sound from "change" folowed by "own"
chmod = chng-mod
chgrp = chng-group
ed = ed (pronounce as written. Like the Proper name "Ed")
(Funny, I don't think I've *ever* heard anyone refer to "ed" as "ee dee",
OTOH, everyone pronounces "vi" as "vee eye" not "veye".
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sidhe
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response 93 of 111:
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Jun 25 19:36 UTC 1995 |
I thought that was pronounced "Vee"..
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srw
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response 94 of 111:
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Jun 25 21:25 UTC 1995 |
No it is almost universally "vee eye", although I have heard a few
clueless people say "vye". Other names are more variable. fsck
probably holds the record for the most acceptable pronunciations.
I have adopted Jonathon's "eff suck" and I like it, but I think
it is just a matter of personal taste there, unlike the "vi" case.
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gregc
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response 95 of 111:
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Jun 26 01:21 UTC 1995 |
Yes, it is generally considered sort of a hacker in-joke that you can always
identify the newbie or the clueless, by how they pronouce "vi". :-)
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janc
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response 96 of 111:
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Jun 26 21:51 UTC 1995 |
Only person I ever knew who called it "vye" was a mechanical engineer. I did,
however, once have a non-computer person see the name and call it "six".
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davel
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response 97 of 111:
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Jun 27 00:11 UTC 1995 |
I say "vie"; admittedly one of a vanishingly small minority.
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gregc
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response 98 of 111:
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Jun 27 00:46 UTC 1995 |
I had never even thought of pronouncing it "veye" until I heard a friend of
mine, who works as an assistant in a legal office, pronounce it that way.
She used to say: "veye is vile".
I think I actually heard one person pronounce it as "six" once.
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carl
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response 99 of 111:
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Jun 27 09:55 UTC 1995 |
Sheesh. Here I thought vie was the proper way to say it, and
I couldn't figure out what my instructor was referring to when
she mentioned vee eye. I caught on quickly, however.
Another one was the "-" used in commands. I read it aloud as
dash and she reads it as minus.
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