I always thought it was pronounced LEEN UCKS as in LEE NUS Torv', so its LEEnooks ? where does the "nooks" come from ?
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 17:08:24 -0500, William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's an air conditioner company around here called Lennox. Whenever > I hear their commercials on TV, my ears perk up. Lihn ucks. > > Way back before I liked Linux, I used to religiously correct the > pronuciation "Lihn ucks" using Torvald's sun .au file, "LEEnooks.' > > I thought this philosophically important as it both stresses Linux's > distinction from Unix, and also thought it important to use a > foreigner's pronunciation to emphasize that this is a horse of another > color. > > Do you think "Joe 6-Pack" of the Windows world would be more able to > understand what the concept of Linux is all about when they read "Lihn > ucks" and know to pronounce it "LEEnooks." Exercising your noodle that > way might get more curious about what it's all about. > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
