How Do You Pronounce The Word "linux"?

[M1k3st3r]

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.

[Mjolinor]

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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ooks as in pool?

ucks as in duck?

[Cagilaba]

http://www.paul.sladen.org/pronunciation/t...-says-linux.mp3

[M1k3st3r]

ooks as in pool?

ucks as in duck?
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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!!

[Mjolinor]

ooks as in pool?

ucks as in duck?
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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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Hmm, doesn't help much because I pronounce duck and shook the same apart from the first bit ).

[chal]

"Hello, this is Linus Torvalds and I pronounce Linux as 'Linux' "

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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

[bluedevils]

I used to pronounce line-ucks along time ago, but now I it's linn-ucks

[stbrock]

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.  

"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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[Gondola]

I, and everyone I know who talks about it, says Linux like "linnicks" (rhymes with cynics).

Just my personal experience.

[chal]

We should probably find a GNU way to pronounce it.

[-G-]

We should probably find a GNU way to pronounce it.
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LiGNUx?  

[vputz]

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).

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[BROse]

Me, I say.....Lin-x

[InSearchOf]

WOW... you really really dug this one up...

[liberated]

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).

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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.