How Do You Pronounce Salix?

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How Do You Pronounce Salix?

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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?

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Re: How Do You Pronounce Salix?

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I say Say-lix :)

But it depends what your native language is, too.
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mimosa wrote:I say Say-lix :)
That is how I pronounce it also.
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Re: How Do You Pronounce Salix?

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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,

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but the American and British versions sound different. :lol:
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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,

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thats not being a happydog. ;)
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Re: How Do You Pronounce Salix?

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happydog500 wrote:Unbelievable!
people are guessing even how to pronounce the OS.
Same with Linux...there are different ways different people pronounce it! Doesn't stop most people from using it! ;)
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Re: How Do You Pronounce Salix?

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ChuangTzu wrote:but the American and British versions sound different. :lol:
Now also read the written pronunciation in the same page.
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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'.
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