How do you pronounce GCC and Cygwin?

How do you pronounce GCC and Cygwin?

[Vsevolod Buzinov]

Hello all!

Please tell me how do you pronounce GCC and Cygwin?
Thanks!


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Re: How do you pronounce GCC and Cygwin?

[Cliff Hones]

> Please tell me how do you pronounce GCC and Cygwin?

Here in England we say:
     Jee Sea Sea
and  SIG-win

Across the pond, and in the antipodes, it could well be
different, though :-).

-- Cliff


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Re: How do you pronounce GCC and Cygwin?

[John A. Turner]

Cliff Hones wrote:
> 
> > Please tell me how do you pronounce GCC and Cygwin?
> 
> Here in England we say:
>      Jee Sea Sea
> and  SIG-win
> 
> Across the pond, and in the antipodes, it could well be
> different, though :-).

absolutely - here we pronounce it "Throatwarbler Mangrove"

-JT

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Re: How do you pronounce GCC and cygwin?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 12:53:17PM +0100, Sam Edge wrote:
>Mark Sheppardwrote in
><F239CD897B4CD611825600508BE70AC212ABD3@FRUITMACHINE.brighton.climax.co.uk>
>in gmane.os.cygwin on Fri, 3 May 2002 11:15:05 +0100:
>
>> I normally pronounce it with a long "i" sound (s-eye-gwin, as
>> in cyclops or cycle), although I've heard others pronounce it
>> with a short "i" sound (as in signal) as Cliff seems to.  He
>> doesn't speak for the entire country as I'm in England too!
>
>I think the short-i sound is more appropriate since the "cy" part
>comes from Cygnus.

That's right: http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=cygnus .

>> I can't see how you could pronounce GCC other than saying the
>> individual letters so I'm not sure why the original poster
>> asks about that.
>
>You could possibly pronounce it as the contracted expletive "Jeez!"

It's pronounced Gee See See .

cgf

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Re: How do you pronounce GCC and Cygwin?

[Sam Edge]

Mark Sheppardwrote in
<F239CD897B4CD611825600508BE70AC212ABD3@FRUITMACHINE.brighton.climax.co.uk>
in gmane.os.cygwin on Fri, 3 May 2002 11:15:05 +0100:

> I normally pronounce it with a long "i" sound (s-eye-gwin, as
> in cyclops or cycle), although I've heard others pronounce it
> with a short "i" sound (as in signal) as Cliff seems to.  He
> doesn't speak for the entire country as I'm in England too!

I think the short-i sound is more appropriate since the "cy" part
comes from Cygnus.

> I can't see how you could pronounce GCC other than saying the
> individual letters so I'm not sure why the original poster
> asks about that.

You could possibly pronounce it as the contracted expletive "Jeez!"
;-)

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Sam Edge

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RE: How do you pronounce GCC and Cygwin?

[Mark Sheppard]

I normally pronounce it with a long "i" sound (s-eye-gwin, as
in cyclops or cycle), although I've heard others pronounce it
with a short "i" sound (as in signal) as Cliff seems to.  He
doesn't speak for the entire country as I'm in England too!

I can't see how you could pronounce GCC other than saying the
individual letters so I'm not sure why the original poster
asks about that.

Mark.


-----Original Message-----
From: Cliff Hones [mailto:cliff@aonix.co.uk]
Sent: 02 May 2002 20:38
To: Vsevolod Buzinov; cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: How do you pronounce GCC and Cygwin?


> Please tell me how do you pronounce GCC and Cygwin?

Here in England we say:
     Jee Sea Sea
and  SIG-win

Across the pond, and in the antipodes, it could well be
different, though :-).

-- Cliff


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