> From: "Eric G . Miller" <egm2@jps.net>
> > Was it just an odd perception of how the letters l-i-n-u-x would > > be pronounced? > > Well, this poor sap, never having heard the word pronouned, and before > hearing the Linn-Uhks vs. Lie-nucks debates, came up with the Lie-nucks > pronunciation based on regular American English phonetics. You've got a > vowel preceding a single hard consonant which is then followed by a > single vowel which is followed by a hard consonant. By default, that > first vowel is long (though there are many exceptions). > > For instance, compare: "final", "fiddle" (special 'le' == 'el' rule), > "liken", "limber"; "liner","linger"; etc... Yeah, that's what I meant by "odd perception" of how to pronounce it-- not following the base English spelling/pronunciation rules you mention. Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )