On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 14:33, David L. Johnson wrote:
> qwertyu asdfg wrote:
> > How is LyX pronounced? Is it "licks" like Felix or "lick" like LaTeX or
> > some third variation?
Some years ago, this very question provoked months of erudite linguistic
debate complete with exchange of insults between protagonists.
I would love to stir it all up again but, in the interests of keeping
people's blood pressure at safe levels, I will simply say that there
were 2 camps:
1. Those (mostly Germanic people) who favoured Licks or Looks
2. The traditionalists who favoured Lick (aspirated so that the screen
becomes rather moist - to quote Donald Knuth re the pronunciation of
TeX)
In the absence of a papal pronouncement, there will never be an
authoritative answer.
regards
John O'Gorman
>
> I'd say "licks". The original name was LyriX ("lyrics"), but Matthias
> had to change that name after he got a nasty letter from a lawyer
> claiming that there was a(nother) word-processor for unix systems with
> that name.
>
> Part of the choice of name, and spelling/case, was to be a bit ambiguous
> with the allusion to TeX.
