Sometime on Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 03:31:06PM +0530, Vinayak Hegde said:
On 7/17/05, Nikhil Marathe nsm.nikhil@gmail.com wrote:
This is a dumb question. Is Linux pronounced as (Li - nux) where Li is like in 'lit' or like in 'lie'.
It's not a dumb question considering that half the people mispronounce linux. The debate over the pronounciation was settled long time ago by Linus himself (remember sndconfig on Old linux distros ??). Linux is pronounced as "Lee-knucks".
Another opinion:
http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23394
<quote> I guess I'm stupid then because i pronounce it Li-nux (lie nux) because the name came from Linus (lie-nus). I refuse to pronounce it lin-ux or lin-us because i don't believe in this creative license that people take in pronouncing their name differently.... the name Linus (lie-nus) is a lot older than Linus Torvalds!
Robert is pronounced raw-bert, and i don't care if other Robert's want it pronounced differently, it's how it should always be pronounced! </quote>
Anurag