5 Feb
2020
5 Feb
'20
7:35 p.m.
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:
ISTR thinking of it and calling it e-d, along with r-m, l-n, m-v and
the other two-letter commands.
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. (And did people really say
"dee-eye-tee-roff" for "ditroff"?)
I did ... Although it's "groff" and not "g-roff". :-)
FWIW,
Arnold