From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: tuhs@tuhs.org, cym224@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Speaking commands [Was: Bell System Technical Journal archive]
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 07:20:23 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201807171320.w6HDKNTR023268@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJfiPzwffKhWbfnDyp2wHRVcs1OxzYDtZiO+O3mcKaZqsJPtSA@mail.gmail.com>
Nemo <cym224@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was intrigued by BMK's comment that "ed" was never spokend as "ed"
> by "those in the know", which leads me to wonder how things were
> spoken.
I always spelled out the two-letter commands: e-d, a-r, l-s, r-m, c-p.
chmod I pronounced as ch-mod (not mode), but 'rmdir' was 'remove dir'
and for some reason, mv was move. (I think the doc for vi officially
stated that the proram's name was to be pronounced v-i and not 'vie'.)
Undoubtedly there were many regional differences... :-)
Arnold
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-17 13:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-17 12:33 Nemo
2018-07-17 13:20 ` arnold [this message]
2018-07-17 14:39 ` John P. Linderman
2018-07-18 17:39 ` arnold
2018-07-19 4:59 ` [TUHS] ar libraries [was: Speaking commands [Was: Bell System Technical Journal archive]] Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2018-07-19 15:29 ` Paul Winalski
2018-07-19 16:12 ` John P. Linderman
2018-07-20 23:01 ` [TUHS] Speaking commands [Was: Bell System Technical Journal archive] Kurt H Maier
2018-07-18 0:56 ` Ron Natalie
2018-07-18 3:54 ` arnold
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