On Tuesday 15 May 2007 10:29 am, Dave Donovan wrote: > > I'm guilty of being a Lye-Nucks pronouncer. It always sounded awkward > > any other way until I heard some German friends pronounce Lee-Nooks and > then it sounded OK, at least coming from them.
heh, I'm a lin-ucks pronouncer... lee-nooks would sound too.. european... for me. :-) > For years, when I was a lone Asterisk user and before I met any others, I > pronounced IAX as Eye-Axe (which is the same as Eye-Ask for some people but > let's not get started). Then I met Mark Spencer and he kept saying 'eeks'. > At first I didn't even know what he was talking about. Yes, see, I pronounced it either eye-axe or eye aye eks... "eeks" ? I still can't do that. It's like how the devs write the word "nub" -- that's not how you spell noob! Nub? That rhymes with rub! It's noob, noob, dammit! > I fell in love with my Eye-Axe pronunciation so I still use it when I'm > talking to myself. I think I'll be OK until this happens: "New from Apple: > want to chop down a tree in style? Get the iAxe." That's allright, I was consistently made fun of for "tele-phony" at it360. :-) But yes. eye-axe. I'm stubborn enough to try and make everyone else say it that way, too. :-) -A.
