 How Do You Pronounce The Word "linux"?, Just want to see if I'm saying it right |
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 Nov 29 2005, 12:37 PM
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Hey y'all, this is my 1st post and I figured I'd make a poll to see if I've been pronouncing the word "Linux" correctly. I've been calling it "Line-ooks" my whole life.
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Nov 29 2005, 01:02 PM
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QUOTE(M1k3st3r @ Nov 29 2005, 09:37 PM) Hey y'all, this is my 1st post and I figured I'd make a poll to see if I've been pronouncing the word "Linux" correctly. I've been calling it "Line-ooks" my whole life.  ooks as in pool? ucks as in duck? |
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Nov 29 2005, 02:05 PM
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Nov 29 2005, 02:08 PM
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QUOTE(Mjolinor @ Nov 29 2005, 09:02 PM) ooks as in pool? ucks as in duck? Yeah, I guess it would help if i put up some sort of pronouncation key... Well I'm thinking of "ooks" as in "shook". EDIT: Thanks Cagilaba!! |
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Nov 29 2005, 02:37 PM
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QUOTE(M1k3st3r @ Nov 29 2005, 11:08 PM) QUOTE(Mjolinor @ Nov 29 2005, 09:02 PM) ooks as in pool? ucks as in duck? Yeah, I guess it would help if i put up some sort of pronouncation key... Well I'm thinking of "ooks" as in "shook". EDIT: Thanks Cagilaba!! Hmm, doesn't help much because I pronounce duck and shook the same apart from the first bit  ).
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Nov 30 2005, 06:49 AM
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"Hello, this is Linus Torvalds and I pronounce Linux as 'Linux' "
Download the avi (~3 meg) I Personally say Linux rhyming with the English word cynics. That might only be because I am so cynical. http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/saylinux.htm |
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Nov 30 2005, 07:01 AM
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I used to pronounce line-ucks along time ago, but now I it's linn-ucks
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Nov 30 2005, 07:29 AM
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Check out www.onelook.com for lots of dictionary entries for Linux, several of which link to pronunciation audio or information. Linus himself pronounces it in a Scandanavian way (LEE-nux) that is different from anyone else I've ever heard in English. Judging from the references, no one ought to consider the "cynics" or "ducks" versions wrong. You hear both a lot, in the US at least. Anyone who says there is one "right" pronunciation -- whatever they might think it to be -- is wrong.
QUOTE(chal @ Nov 30 2005, 10:49 AM) "Hello, this is Linus Torvalds and I pronounce Linux as 'Linux' "
Download the avi (~3 meg) I Personally say Linux rhyming with the English word cynics. That might only be because I am so cynical. http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/saylinux.htm |
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Nov 30 2005, 06:28 PM
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I, and everyone I know who talks about it, says Linux like "linnicks" (rhymes with cynics).
Just my personal experience. |
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Dec 1 2005, 06:13 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 98 Joined: 30-April 05 From: Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Member No.: 7,035 |
We should probably find a GNU way to pronounce it.
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Dec 4 2005, 10:54 AM
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QUOTE(chal @ Dec 1 2005, 02:13 PM) We should probably find a GNU way to pronounce it. LiGNUx? 
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Dec 5 2005, 02:22 PM
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I figure since Linus pronounces it as rhyming with his name in Finnish ("...my name is Lee-noos Torvalds, and I pronounce Lee-nooks as Lee-nooks"), I just "Americanize" the OS the same way as the name ("Line-us"->"Line-ucks"). That way, I'm wrong, but in a predictable way (heh).
-->VPutz |
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Aug 29 2006, 10:06 AM
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Me, I say.....Lin-x
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Aug 29 2006, 11:32 AM
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WOW... you really really dug this one up...
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Oct 19 2006, 11:57 AM
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QUOTE(vputz @ Dec 6 2005, 12:22 AM) I figure since Linus pronounces it as rhyming with his name in Finnish ("...my name is Lee-noos Torvalds, and I pronounce Lee-nooks as Lee-nooks"), I just "Americanize" the OS the same way as the name ("Line-us"->"Line-ucks"). That way, I'm wrong, but in a predictable way (heh). -->VPutz Just for the record, Linus native language is Swedish, and that's how he pronounces his name (with a Finlandian accent but it's still Swedish) . I think it is about 8% of the people in Finland that speak Swedish as their first language. |
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