Re: RH6.0 and Linux pronunciation at CompUSA

[brian davison <bdavison proaxis com>]

Back in the '50s the phonics rules said a vowel followed by two consonants
was short, and if followed by a consonant a vowel, twould be long...  with
some exceptions of course..    Miss Welp would have had some fun putting her
foot down on this thread...  <G>   
Brian  :) !!
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At 08:35 PM 5/19/99 -0700, you wrote:
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>On Thu, 20 May 1999, Cameron Simpson wrote:
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>> | To my amusement the narrator pronounced it as Lie (as in sky) -
>> | Nucks.  Now I know one can pronounce it anyway they like but this
>> | pronunciation seems to be the least used out there from what I've seen on
>> | this list and others.  
>> 
>> What, you can tell pronuciation from a text forum? Gosh!
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>No, just seen a lot of discussions here on this and other lists.  
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>> I'll have you know we say "Lie Nucks" here - you must just be weird.
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>Well, considering that most English words that start with lin rhyme with
>lit I'd say that you must be the weird one (in fact the only ones that
>rhyme with lie are based on line and I don't see any e's in Linux.)
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>But I guess it's better to be weird than straight so from here on out I'll 
>pronounce it lie - noox.
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>Greg 
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