Revolution OS

Merv Curley mervc-MwcKTmeKVNQ at public.gmane.org
Mon Feb 26 18:43:24 UTC 2007


On Monday 26 February 2007 12:59, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 03:09:02AM -0500, tleslie wrote:
> > Now most actually don't pronounce it the "proper" way with the "nukes"
> > at the end, so I don't feel to bad with my pronouncation, but what i
> > found interesting, is that Linux did say the name came from
> > the sound of his first name with the "ux" at the end,
> > and do not must pronounce his hame "line - us"
> > not "len  us", so according to Linus, shouldn't
> > it be pronouncd as i do    "line ux" in North America ?
>

Well I took my pronunciation from Peanuts - and we all know what a reference 
that is.  I like  Line-us and Line-ux.  And I'll defend my right to 
mis-prounce it, paraphrasing  Charlie Heston.

Cheers

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Merv Curley
Toronto, Ont. Can

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