On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Roger Searle <[email protected]>wrote:


> 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?
>

And to borrow from Rogers question, how do you all pronounce "usr" .

"bin", "proc" , "sys", "lib", they're all straight forward ( I hope ), but
'usr' has some degree of ambiguity, especially when some platforms ( looking
at you Apple ) have a literal  /User  which is not correspondent to /usr,
and you have to be careful not to enter a disambiguation problem in
communicating this to people because they're likely to put the "e" in there.




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