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Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
> a concatenation of the anglophone pronunciation of the letters
> ("ex-em-el", "ex-ess-el", "ex-ess-el-tee") (but "Z"?)
Why should there be a single standard for this? Let the zee-ers and the
zedders have each their own way. ("Zee" in the U.S., "zed" in all other
countries AFAIK.) Although I have heard that Z, the specification formalism,
is pronounced "zed" even in the U.S.
> ELSE the authors of the spec could usefully suggest pronunciation.
I don't know how really useful that would be. There was a movement in the
early days of Posix to note the pronunciation "pah-ziks" in the standard,
reflecting American English: those who wanted to pronounce "Posix" like
their version of "positive" protested, and rightly so IMHO.
I've always wondered how one says "Unix" in French. Is there a split
between purist /yni/ and Franglais /juniks/?
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