5 Feb
2020
5 Feb
'20
9:34 a.m.
On Tue, Feb 4, 2020, 4:28 PM Rob Pike <robpike(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Unix room pronunciation:
ed: Ed or E.D.; both were common
chroot: cheroot
chgrp: ch-group
chown: rhymes with "clone"
chmod: rhymes with "god"
creat: cree-at
nroff: enn-roff (because it was the descendant of roff)
troff: tee-roff
vi: (for those few who used it) V.I. I pronounced it V.I. but often
thought of Roman numerals.
Those match the way I heard them at school in the 80s...
Warner
Also a side note about vi: Plan 9 had another program with that name.
http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/1/vi. The 'v'
meant mips for obscure but
consistent reasons. Yet another reason the command was pronounced V.I.
regardless of its function.
-rob