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Sounds like it should actually be "χonch," then, with a Greek letter chi instead of an 'x'.
by pmiller2 6y ago
Sounds like it should actually be "χonch," then, with a Greek letter chi instead of an 'x'.
- kwk1 6y agoThis pattern is also present in e.g. LaTeX
- samatman 6y agoTeX being from τέχνη make sense, I do enjoy startling people by pronouncing it thus (as Knuth recommends). xonsh being pronounced /kɑnʃ/ and not /eks.ɑnʃ/ or /xɑnʃ/, or even /zɑnʃ/, is just one of those things I have to remember. pronouncing TeX /tɛk/ is better than /tɛks/, but really it's /tɛx/, the way Bach is /bax/.