The difficulty seems to be that the two X do not have the same origin.
The first stands, as I think, for something like eXtended (in the sends
of enhanced). About the second Donald Kuth tells us in "The TeXbook",
chapter 1 "The Name of the Game": "Insiders pronounce the $\chi$ of
\TeX\ as a Greek chi, not as an `x', so that \TeX\ rhymes with the word
blecchhh. It's the `ch' sound in Scottish words like {\sl loch\/} or
German words like {\sl ach\/}; it's a Spanish `j' and a Russian `kh'.
When you say it correctly to your computer, the terminal may become
slightly moist."
Thus, pronounciation should be perhaps myu-zicks-tech.
bernhard
On Jan 23, 2006, at 4:39 PM, maurizio codogno wrote:
On 1/23/06, Don Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Without much thought, I've been pronouncing MusiXTeX as
"myu-zicks-teck."
But, if TeX is pronounced "teck," then should MusiX be pronounced
"myu-zick"?
I thought that the pronunciation of TeX rhymed with Bach, so I'd
pronounce it
myu-zich-tech...
ciao, .mau.
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