On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, Roger Searle wrote: > 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?
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