In school, whenever we talked about Linux, seems like everyone had a different way to pronounce words used in Linux. I always tried to find out the correct way to pronounce each word.
I am surprised to see it isn't listed clearly on the website. Quite a few Linux words are not pronounced the way they look. Is it Sal icks? Sal Licks? I thought of a couple more last night, but can't remember right now.
How do you pronounce Salix?
Thank you,
Chris.
How Do You Pronounce Salix?
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How Do You Pronounce Salix?
Once you go Salix, you don't go back
Re: How Do You Pronounce Salix?
I say Say-lix
But it depends what your native language is, too.
But it depends what your native language is, too.
Re: How Do You Pronounce Salix?
That is how I pronounce it also.mimosa wrote:I say Say-lix
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Re: How Do You Pronounce Salix?
Unbelievable!
"I say?" Some one else will say, "I say" and it will be different. What am I getting myself into? I want to get behind a distro, maybe make a contribution or give back in other ways and I pick one that doesn't have the pronouncement on the page and people are guessing even how to pronounce the OS.
Thanks for the way you pronounce it,
Chris.
"I say?" Some one else will say, "I say" and it will be different. What am I getting myself into? I want to get behind a distro, maybe make a contribution or give back in other ways and I pick one that doesn't have the pronouncement on the page and people are guessing even how to pronounce the OS.
Thanks for the way you pronounce it,
Chris.
Once you go Salix, you don't go back
Re: How Do You Pronounce Salix?
gapan wrote:Here you go:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/salix
but the American and British versions sound different.
Re: How Do You Pronounce Salix?
thats not being a happydog.happydog500 wrote:Unbelievable!
"I say?" Some one else will say, "I say" and it will be different. What am I getting myself into? I want to get behind a distro, maybe make a contribution or give back in other ways and I pick one that doesn't have the pronouncement on the page and people are guessing even how to pronounce the OS.
Thanks for the way you pronounce it,
Chris.
Re: How Do You Pronounce Salix?
Same with Linux...there are different ways different people pronounce it! Doesn't stop most people from using it!happydog500 wrote:Unbelievable!
people are guessing even how to pronounce the OS.
Dell Optiplex 760 | Quad-Core | 4gb | 250gb | Salix-14.2 - Xfce4 & Openbox
HP DX5150 AMD64 | 1.5gb | 40gb | SalixOS-13.0 - Xfce4
HP DX5150 AMD64 | 1.5gb | 40gb | SalixOS-13.0 - Xfce4
Re: How Do You Pronounce Salix?
Now also read the written pronunciation in the same page.ChuangTzu wrote:but the American and British versions sound different.
Re: How Do You Pronounce Salix?
There is a reason English spelling is not "phonetic" (though the better term for what is meant might be phonemic).
Underlying all this is a change in the way "foreign" words are pronounced in English. As English speakers, despite ourselves, grow more familiar with other languages, they become aware that most don't employ the strange sound changes that lead to a diphthong like that in say, "change" being spelled with just the letter 'a'. The classic example of this is the pronunciation of Latin in English - the old version is preserved in botanical names like "Salix" (for the willow family) but not when reading Virgil in the classroom, where there is a half-hearted attempt to approach the original Roman sounds. Techno-babble and sci-fi gobbledegook count as "foreign languages". And so for example most people pronounce the 'i' in 'Linux' the same as the one in 'printer'.
Underlying all this is a change in the way "foreign" words are pronounced in English. As English speakers, despite ourselves, grow more familiar with other languages, they become aware that most don't employ the strange sound changes that lead to a diphthong like that in say, "change" being spelled with just the letter 'a'. The classic example of this is the pronunciation of Latin in English - the old version is preserved in botanical names like "Salix" (for the willow family) but not when reading Virgil in the classroom, where there is a half-hearted attempt to approach the original Roman sounds. Techno-babble and sci-fi gobbledegook count as "foreign languages". And so for example most people pronounce the 'i' in 'Linux' the same as the one in 'printer'.