James Rayner wrote:

I speak Australian and I say arc :P

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On 8/25/05, Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 11:01:48AM +0000, Andy Roberts wrote:
On Thursday 25 Aug 2005 07:26, James Rayner wrote:
I'm guilty!

I say it arc, probably because the logo is an arc.
But it also looks like an arch!

So, are you sticking with arc, or have we convinced you otherwise :)
I think that as Judd calls it Arch as in the thing McDonald's has two
golden ones, that should decide it.  ;)

For a native English speaker, it's the most natural pronunciation.  For
spakers whose first language is something else (German, perhaps) Ark
might be more natural, but <shrug>.

Of course, many people pronounce Gentoo with a g as in get, when it
should be a J sound, and many people pronounce the Li of Linux as
Lie-nux.

At any rate, it's livened up the list, but seeing all the posts reminds
me of this entry from the FreeBSD faq.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#BIKESHED-PAINTING




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point that thing at her, you're gonna be all 'Aaagh!' (holding
her hand to her head in imitation of Spike), and then you'll get
bitch-slapped up and down Main Street, unless she's finally had
enough and just stakes you!
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Anyway, although different people refer to same word with different pronunciation and sometimes even different spelling it is still good to know that you're speaking and writing as originally intented... Gentoo - a kind of penguin has only one corrent pronunciation - it is entirely different matter how many people care to look it up... The same applies to Ubuntu, the commonly mistaken SUSE (pronounced ZUZE actually...), and even the very kernel itself. We in Bulgaria - call it Линукс [linuks] - almost all know that this is incorrect, but few care... But they care a lot ...

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