On 22 Oct 98, at 9:33, Brett Lorenzen wrote:
> Having been corrected myself many times for taking an "american" slant on
> the pronunciation (lie-nuks), I can attest that you get brownie points for
> recognizing that in Finland, the name is pronounced Lin-us (not Lie-nus as
> anglos and Charles Schultz fans pronounce it :), and hence Lin-ucks by
> derivation.
Odd, I am American but I have always pronounced it :
Lin-ucks
This reminds of the SQL debate. I recall my brother-in-law talking
about SEQUEL and I wasn't too sure what he was talking about. My
first inclination was to pronounce it as ESS QUE ELL. I do believe I
am "right" in my inclination.
I am curious about other words that a lot of people are introduced to
via reading and thus begin to pronounce as they see fit.
It seems to me that Unix people say ESS QUE ELL and Microsoft people
say SEQUEL. It almost reminds me of British society where, as I
understand it, you can tell where a person went to school by his
pronunciation.
I don't like the idea of any majority determining how a word should
be used or spoken; then again I don't like the idea of the academy
either.
Peter
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