Received: from localhost (IDENT:root@hectic-1.jpl.nasa.gov [128.149.68.203]) by hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA43618 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 09:16:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu) Received: from alumni.caltech.edu (lockhart@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA30183; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 13:14:58 GMT Sender: lockhart@hub.org Message-ID: <37B025D2.974574D6@alumni.caltech.edu> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 13:14:58 +0000 From: Thomas Lockhart X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Good CC: Peter Eisentraut , Lamar Owen , "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9?= Soares" , Postgres Hackers List Subject: Re: Pronunciation of "PostgreSQL" (was: Re: [HACKERS] New man pages) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > 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