From: Sam Edge <sam_edgeZZZ@hotmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: How do you pronounce GCC and Cygwin?
Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 04:53:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sau4dusuafg4gb2ldge2jqd0r9bmcrinte@4ax.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F239CD897B4CD611825600508BE70AC212ABD3@FRUITMACHINE.brighton.climax.co.uk>
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-03 11:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-03 3:13 Mark Sheppard
2002-05-03 4:53 ` Sam Edge [this message]
2002-05-03 19:13 ` How do you pronounce GCC and cygwin? Christopher Faylor
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2002-05-02 11:33 How do you pronounce GCC and Cygwin? Vsevolod Buzinov
2002-05-02 12:39 ` Cliff Hones
2002-05-03 21:19 ` John A. Turner
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