Alan Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Pixel...ah ha! I've been waiting to say this to someone, and
> you're it!!
>
> Speaking as a native American English speaker, I wish you guys
> who use the last half of manDRAKE to name the utilities would
> please quit dropping the final E (making drake into drak).
>
> The reason for this request is that in English, that final,
> silent E has an effect on the pronunciation of the A (drAkE).
> When the silent E is there then the A gets pronounced just
> like the letter A is prounced in the aplphabet, it called a
> long A.
>
> But when you remove the silent E (drAk) the A changes
> pronounciation to a short A as in the word 'at'.
- many french here, and for froggies, tis just the same without or with the E.
- too late to modify all these progs (not worth the trouble)
- anyway i can decide that DrakX should be pronounced drakex (don't see why only
english should be used to decide the prononciation, guess how linucks is
pronounced is france!)
