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Pronunciation Guide for Unix

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Re: Pronunciation Guide for Unix

#11
! Exclamation point exclamation (mark), (ex)clam, excl, wow, hey, boing, bang, shout, yell, shriek, pling, factorial, ball-bat, smash, cuss, store, not (UNIX) (C), dammit (UNIX)

Deeply sadened there is not entry for this with "splosh dot", as that and "bang" are the ones everybody I've worked with used over past 3 decades, though mindful that may well be a local cultural thang from the UK.

As for ~ even sadder there is not entry for "swan hyphen".

Re: Pronunciation Guide for Unix

#16

I only recently learned that /usr was an acronym and not just a shortening of "user". Are we supposed to say each letter??? I've been pronouncing it as "user" this whole time!

USR=User system resources, right. I still think that's a backronym.

Re: Pronunciation Guide for Unix

#18

I only recently learned that /usr was an acronym and not just a shortening of "user". Are we supposed to say each letter??? I've been pronouncing it as "user" this whole time!

Supposedly, usr was supposed to be “user”[0] but was switched after the Unix guys needed more disk space and split the file system into the / and /usr mount points.

Then /home was made because /usr was filled up with other things.

[0]: Rob Landley of busybox fame recalled on the busybox mailing lists some ten years ago http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074...

Re: Pronunciation Guide for Unix

#19
> ¤ > Sonne

So that's what that symbol meant on the good old КУВТ-2. Now my life is complete.

Having learned Unix-y stuff in non-English environment, I still pronounce a lot of things in a weird way despite having very little accent otherwise. /etc will always be either "ye-t-k" or "ye-t-tse" and yum will be "yu-oo-m"

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