5 Jun
2006
5 Jun
'06
4:41 p.m.
Michael Welle napisał(a):
Hi,
last week a work mate told us a tale about how Unix came to its
name. He believes that Unix is named after the term eunuch (a
homophone of (to?) unix in english language). One can see Unix as a
Now, that You know where the name unix comes from(see my previous post),
there still is a *funny* coincidence in pronounciation of both words.
In Oxford American Dictionary
eunuch is pronounced as "yoo-nuk" (not all symbols reproduced)
unit is "yoo-nit"
unique is "yoo-neek"
In Webster English Language Dictionary
eunuch is "'yunek"
unit is "'yunet"
unique is "yu'nek,yu'nik"
You can notice, that unix , more similar to unit or unique will be
pronounced differently(?).
It suggests , that although for us foreigners the difference is hard to
be distinguished, but perhaps Americans and Englishmen can hear the
subtle difference above shown in the pronounciation(or perhaps not all).
I suspect , that if the pronounciation were be same many people would
have noticed it before.
It is clear , that opinion of American/English linguistic/language
specialist would be neccesarry.
Andrzej