5 Feb
2020
5 Feb
'20
10:16 p.m.
definitely a diminutive term.
On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 11:11 AM Arthur Krewat <krewat(a)kilonet.net> wrote:
Bunch of guys at Computer Graphics Lab (at New York
Institute of
Technology) back in the 80's used to call it "f-suck".
On 2/5/2020 8:35 AM, Clem cole wrote:
FWIW. When it was written, Ted and I used
pronounced it as “fisk”
(rhymes with “disk”), but F. S. C. K. was always acceptable
to my ears. I
admit I smiled one time when I heard some one call it “f-sick” but that was
not considered the proper pronunciation.
Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not
quite.
On Feb 5, 2020, at 3:45 AM, arnold(a)skeeve.com
wrote:
"G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
At 2020-02-04T09:40:18+0100, Sijmen J. Mulder
wrote:
> markus schnalke <meillo(a)marmaro.de> wrote:
>> Wikipedia writes that `ed' would be pronounced ``ee-dee'' (like
>> ``vee-eye''), is that what you english speakers do?
Certainly not. When one sees a command name that duplicates a
frequently-used diminituve of a common name, the brain is going to
select that preferentially.
ISTR thinking of it and calling it e-d, along with
r-m, l-n, m-v and
the other two-letter commands.
(And did people really say
"dee-eye-tee-roff" for "ditroff"?)
I did ... Although it's
"groff" and not "g-roff". :-)
FWIW,
Arnold