5 Feb
2020
5 Feb
'20
2:45 p.m.
"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