Linux Pronunciation ?
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Am I missing something here? What has that got to do with the difference in pronunciation between (lie)nux or (linn)ux ?
I was 'pronouncing' the end. Some say 'nooks', others say 'nucks'.
No, please don't... instead get into the habit of using the 2nd one....Should be double nn then, I'll stick with the former one
There's only one N because Linus Torvalds only has one N in his name
All because dude's name is pronounced as leenoos torvalds and not lay-nus torwald as they kept calling him on CNN few years back over and over again throughout every news service that day.
I have a hard and flat accent myself, and for many, many, many years every time someone from bank or "official details" type of place asked me about my job description and I replied I'm a unix administrator there was that moment of silence on the other end and then inevitable question "what do you mean by Eunuchs Administrator?". For some reason it's one of few words people always hear me say differently than they sound in my head no matter how hard I try. Unix is one word, then there is "films" (my official email contains that word). Simple word you would think. I have no idea what people hear me say, I literally go out of my ways to pronounce it properly and yet for 10 years now I have to resort to adding, "films, as in - movies, motion pictures". And finally there is "lines" (my street name has lines in the name) and I lost the count of times envelopes arrived addressed to "Lions *" instead. They literally must have a note somewhere at the post office - everything addressed to Lions Blah goes to that bloke with square tongue at Lines Blah. I don't know what it is, but it makes me feel really daft good several times a year.
I have a hard and flat accent myself, and for many, many, many years every time someone from bank or "official details" type of place asked me about my job description and I replied I'm a unix administrator there was that moment of silence on the other end and then inevitable question "what do you mean by Eunuchs Administrator?". For some reason it's one of few words people always hear me say differently than they sound in my head no matter how hard I try. Unix is one word, then there is "films" (my official email contains that word). Simple word you would think. I have no idea what people hear me say, I literally go out of my ways to pronounce it properly and yet for 10 years now I have to resort to adding, "films, as in - movies, motion pictures". And finally there is "lines" (my street name has lines in the name) and I lost the count of times envelopes arrived addressed to "Lions *" instead. They literally must have a note somewhere at the post office - everything addressed to Lions Blah goes to that bloke with square tongue at Lines Blah. I don't know what it is, but it makes me feel really daft good several times a year.
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It's a name, it can be pronounced and spelt in whatever way the creator wants.
It's Lin-ux. End of.
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Even though I prefer the UK, and even Finnish pronunciation, Linus uses the US pronunciation, so I do also.
Those people are incorrect.
In English you are corrent.
Linus Torvalds isn't English...
Hence, Lin-ux
He pronounces his name 'lee-nuss'.
Just because the Germans say 'vaulks vagon' et al does that mean we should be ignoring our grasp of the language and pronouncing it as they do?