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From: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
To: Thomas Good <tomg@nrnet.org>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter@pathwaynet.com>
Cc: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
Cc: José Soares <jose@sferacarta.com>
Cc: Postgres Hackers List <hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Pronunciation of "PostgreSQL" (was: Re: [HACKERS] New man pages)
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 13:14:58 +0000
Message-ID: <37B025D2.974574D6@alumni.caltech.edu> (raw)
References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990810080014.20793A-100000@mailhost.nrnet.org>

> And how do you say Linux, Thomas?  I have a friend in Regina, Saskatchewan
> (that's ra-Jine-ah, not ra-geen-ah) who says LINE-ex...I wince every time
> I hear it.  In fact, sometimes, if I'm less than fully caffeinated it
> doesn't even register that he's made a reference to Linn-Ucks...
> (Usually I truncate it to Lin-icks or simply:  Slackware ;-)

*rolf* Actually, that's a problem! When I first started with
linn-ucks, the person who got me going pronounced it line-ex. And
later, when I asked, she said that she intentionally mispronounced it
so she could trace the lineage of the person; that is, so she could
tell if they had learned about it from someone that she knew. Pretty
dastardly... ;)

But I try to pronounce it in Finnish rather than Texan nowadays...

                        - Thomas

-- 
Thomas Lockhart				lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu
South Pasadena, California

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