16 Jul
2009
16 Jul
'09
11:27 a.m.
Brian Wheeler wrote:
I've always pronouced it 'in full' as 'et cetera'.
I suppose the pronunciation of "etc" is
a flamewar waiting to happen as
well :)
It's always "Et-Cee" short for et-cetera. (let the flames
begin.) Another fun one is what to call "vi" - (I
always called vai, never veee
aye - that can start a flame fest too) but if anyone calls it 6, they'll
Again, to me it's 'Vee Eye'.
get slapped with a tuna. :-)
You have my permison to some and do a fish slapping dance on my mother,
who, when I first installed Minix <mumble> years ago (it was, IIRC,
before Linux was first announced), read the start of the manual and said
'What's Six?'.
fsck (pronounced fisk) is fun too... it almost sounds like a word..
"That fsck'ing volume got corrupted again."
Fuss-Chuck here :-)
The one that really annoys me is to areviate 'motherboard' as 'MoBo' and
pronounce it 'Mow-Bow'.
-tony