Nick Rout wrote:
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Roger Searle <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Craig Falconer wrote:
Mind you - we normally type these commands, or read them.
Very rarely do we say them out loud.
Others in the same region:
fsck fissik/eff ess check/eff sik
gcc gee sea sea / ?
ssh ess ess aitch / shhh / shoosh
wget doubleyou get / wuh-get
strace ess-strace / strace / street race
The one that got me the first time I heard someone say it, and
still does, is the folder /etc. I had always imagined it
pronounced as eee tea see, and is how it still is in my head.
Hearing it as "etcetera" is just wrong, to my ear!
Why, its a common abbreviation and you don't even have to be a nerd to
understand it!
Only because it was a long time until I heard anyone pronounce it as
etcetera, having always thought of it internally as the letters. I have
no knowledge of the origins of the folder name.
So to borrow Robert's question from this morning, how would people say
the folder /etc out loud?
