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Re: When Geeks meet.
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> >Linus is a cool dude, very open and friendly like I more or less expected
> BTW, I saw a film in which there was an American guy named Linus. Only, in
> the usual American English way it was pronounced Lie-naes. In Israel we
> pronounce Linux as Lee-nox, so I how do they say it in America. Another
> good question is what is the common pronouncation of Linux by Finnish
> speakers... :-)
>
> Maybe Ira can enlighten us about those two crucial matters.
as Yaron and the .au files sugest, the Americans mostly pronounce it (read
plain) lAY-naks, very few of them say it "right", the way I do too,
lEE-nOOks
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