Guenter Milde wrote:
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>>in North American English -how is "LyX" pronounced?
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> On 29 Aug 2001 00:04:21 +0200 wrote Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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>>"Klaus V. Slott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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>>| I think it would be great help, if somebody recorded a audio file and
>>| placed it somewhere on the LyX web site.
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>>I did that about ~4-5 years ago...
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>>The response was "hey you say 'licks'", when I clearly said 'lyks'.
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>>So I am not sure that will really help...
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>>but you are danish so you should say it strait forward. l y ks
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> The answer is: in North American English, LyX is pronounced wrong, becouse
> they miss the y sound. (This is also, why my name is always wrong pronounced by
> native English people.) If the person in question has
> learned French or German there is a chance they get an idea by telling:
> "LyX sounds like Lüks (German with u-umlaut) or like Luks (French)".
>
> BTW: Just to make the confusion complete: The German word Luchs stands for
> the species lynx lynx.
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> I remember to have red that LyX is a short form for the preliminary name
> LyriX - therefore I suggest that the X is pronounced like in Unix and Linux
> but not like in TeX (which would impose a second difficulty to Americans as
> they don't have the Chi-sound either:
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> (The Russian letter x (cha) is spelled as kh (like Rakhmaninov for
> Rachmaninow) to prevent pronunciation as "tsch".) From English speaking
> nations, only the Scots have the ch-sound (actually, as in German they have
> two of them depending on the following vowel), e.g. "drich" and "Loch Lochy"
> (which non-Scots pronounce lock locky) most other european languages have no
> problem with "ch" (French "Mon cherie", German "technisch", Russian
> "yxa" [ucha/ukha] = fish soup).
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>
> Guenter
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WOW! Now, how is "LyX" pronounced? =)
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