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To me etc is pronounced "etch".
by giomasce 6y ago
To me etc is pronounced "etch".
- notatoad 6y agoHeh, that was the only one I disagreed with too, but I always spell it out e-t-c
- bombcar 6y agoFor me it’s less etsy and more et-cee; the sound may be the same but the second is clearly E T C with the first two elided.
- blackfawn 6y agoSince the /etc pronunciation was first in the list, I initially thought this might be some joke list of crazy pronunciations until I saw the rest. Do people really say "etsy" when referring to /etc? I've never ever heard anyone say this. Usually I hear the spelled out E-T-C and occasionally "et cetera" but never "etsy"
- RMPR 6y ago> Do people really say "etsy" when referring to /etc? Nice to meet you. I've been saying that for 5 years now. Since etc is _et caetera_ I read it as _et c..._ hence the pronunciation.
- Daneel_ 6y agoThere are plenty of us out here. etsy all the way.
- kelnos 6y agoAre you British? I (American) have been pronouncing it "etsy" for over 20 years. When I hear something different it's usually from someone who is new to unix and just hasn't learned all the jargon yet.
- Lio 6y agoHaha, I've been using Unix since the mid-90s on and off. Weirdly I've always assumed the opposite of you, "etsy" being someone new (and very weird) and "et cetera" being correct. Yes, British. I can't accept the US date format as sane and I'm not sure about this etsy thing either. :P
- kelnos 6y agoAs always, it's just what you're used to. I freely admit that the US date format is weird, and that most imperial units are bonkers, but they're immediately "intuitive" to me just because I grew up with them. I just can't "feel" things like celsius or kilograms.