[RndTbl] Pronounce Linux?

Gilles Detillieux grdetil at scrc.umanitoba.ca
Thu Nov 16 15:44:32 CST 2006


Yup, that's the one...

On Thursday, Nov 16, 2006, at 11:37, Montana Quiring wrote:
> This one here?:
> http://www.paul.sladen.org/pronunciation/torvalds-says-linux.wav
>
> -Montana
>
> On 11/16/06, Gilles Detillieux <grdetil at scrc.umanitoba.ca> wrote:
>> Interesting how Linus seems to be losing his accent.  There was a
>> sample audio file included in older versions of Red Hat Linux that had
>> Linus saying, with a fairly heavy Scandinavian accent, how to 
>> pronounce
>> Linux, and back then, it was more like Lee-nooks.  He now seems to
>> prefer the more Americanized Linn-ucks pronunciation.
>>
>> On Wednesday, Nov 15, 2006, at 17:13, Montana Quiring wrote:
>> > Linn-ooks?
>> > Linn-ucks?
>> > Line-ooks?
>> > Line-ucks?
>> >
>> >> From the man himself:
>> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IfHm6R5le0
>> >
>> > -Montana

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Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail: <grdetil at scrc.umanitoba.ca>
Spinal Cord Research Centre       WWW:    http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba  Winnipeg, MB  R3E 3J7  (Canada)



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