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Are there still people who pronounce linux lie'-nucks? And Linus Torvalds[1] originally pronounced it with a bit more ee and oo (almost lee-nooks) than he does
by kbutler 8y ago
Are there still people who pronounce linux lie'-nucks?
And Linus Torvalds[1] originally pronounced it with a bit more ee and oo (almost lee-nooks) than he does now[2] (lih'-nucks).
[1] https://youtu.be/uK0xXFZtJ8Q https://youtu.be/uK0xXFZtJ8Q
[2] https://youtu.be/5IfHm6R5le0 https://youtu.be/5IfHm6R5le0
And gnu and gnome and Debian and nginx and SQL and GIF and ...
The industry is full of made-up words with non-obvious or disputed pronunciations.
- iforgotpassword 8y ago> Are there still people who pronounce linux lie'-nucks? In German it's the stressed "ee" variant. I think with made up words that don't appear to belong to a certain language, yoiu just tend to pronounce it like it was a word in your native language. Google in contrast just looks English because the "oo" is much more common in english, just like the "le" at the end (apart from some regions where you append "le" to nouns to make them sound small/cute).
- bradknowles 8y agoI try to use his original pronunciation wherever and whenever I can, but most of the time I hear “Lin-ucks” with a short “I”, and I naturally respond in kind without even thinking about it. But then there are occasionally articles like this one which remind me that I’m saying it wrong, and that I know better.