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Jamerson
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posted August 05, 1999 19:45     Click Here to See the Profile for Jamerson     Edit/Delete Message
I've heard people say Line-ix (long i), and there's Lin-ix (short i). How do you pronounce it?

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Mike
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posted August 05, 1999 21:11     Click Here to See the Profile for Mike     Edit/Delete Message
I would have thought it was LINE-UX, as it is named after it's creator Linus Torvalds (I may have spelt the surname wrong!)

Surely Linus would be LINE-US, not LINNUS....

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Armin
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posted August 05, 1999 21:48     Click Here to See the Profile for Armin     Edit/Delete Message
Since Linus is scandinavian you'll pronounce his name "germanish", which would be LEE-NUZ, hence Linux is IMHO supposed to be pronounced LEE-NUCKS

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Colin Morey
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posted August 06, 1999 15:01     Click Here to See the Profile for Colin Morey     Edit/Delete Message
O.k. if you go to most of the linux sites, you'll be able to find a file called english.au. (its even on most distros CD, I think). and there linus will pronounce it how he does.

btw, I pronounce it linucks.

Colin

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Imitation
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posted August 07, 1999 11:10     Click Here to See the Profile for Imitation     Edit/Delete Message
Linooks... yeh?
heh

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Jamerson
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posted August 08, 1999 11:30     Click Here to See the Profile for Jamerson     Edit/Delete Message
Hehehhe... Okay. Well, it might actually matter for me, now that my distribution of Redhat 6.0 has been ordered. Yeah! Hopefully I get to escape from the crashy Windoze World... Heh...

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dethrai
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posted August 10, 1999 22:37     Click Here to See the Profile for dethrai     Edit/Delete Message
I was promptly corrected by a friend when I mistakenly pronounced it as LINE-X. I tend to think he is correct since he and a couple of other fiends have used it for quite a while.

dethrai

woo-hoo...just reinstalled Wine-doze 98.

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Charismo
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posted September 02, 1999 07:24     Click Here to See the Profile for Charismo     Edit/Delete Message
Yeah, I read in one of the do it yourself type thingies for linux that it is LIN-UCKS
Although I think LINE-UX in my head, and even say LINE-UX alot, whenever I say LIN-UCKS people say "What the hell is that" and when I repronounce it "LINE-UX" they say "Oh......! LINE-UX!! DUH!"
I think the majority of people who arn't in the know are starting to say LINE-UX, so hopefully it will go that way to please the masses. I personally think it should be like Unix. There is the long U in Unix like "YOUNICKS". If we said it the Linux way it would be "UN-NICKS"with a short u. How stupid does that sound? So linux should be in parity with Unix. Say it the Unix way, do it right. ;-P

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LRMS
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posted September 02, 1999 14:54     Click Here to See the Profile for LRMS     Edit/Delete Message
Everyone here in Brazil say LEE-NUCKS (AFAIK). Never heard LINE-UX...

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Akma
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posted September 02, 1999 17:06     Click Here to See the Profile for Akma     Edit/Delete Message
Duh! English is so stupid 'cause you every letter has n different pronounciations. Thus I was born in Finland. In Finnish you pronounce each letter the same way every time. That rulez!

I pronounce Linux like it's spelled ie. the 'i' is a short letter 'e' and the u is a short letter 'u' as in 'out'.

But hearing is believing they say, so I recorded myself saying the word. That's the best way to find out how I pronounce it.
http://www.kolumbus.fi/jan.hagqvist/linux.wav

[This message has been edited by Akma (edited September 02, 1999).]

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Charismo
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posted September 03, 1999 11:10     Click Here to See the Profile for Charismo     Edit/Delete Message
So you say "Leenooks". I think Line-ucks or line-ux (pronounced the same) sound more streamlined and less... well, weird.

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