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From: Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>
To: Warren Toomey <wkt@tuhs.org>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Pronunciation
Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 14:22:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220519122238.cY1vB%steffen@sdaoden.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YoXUN4jmj9vYUaRu@minnie.tuhs.org>

Warren Toomey wrote in
 <YoXUN4jmj9vYUaRu@minnie.tuhs.org>:
 |On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 02:56:19PM +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
 |> Nearly forgot: how does one pronounce "TUHS"?  I'm torn between "TUSS" \
 |> and 
 |> "CHEWS"...
 |
 |I've always spelled it out: tea ewe aches ess

I use the German pronounciation:

  T[ea] [y]OU [h]->[y]OU S

which sounds like "t:u:'s", an abbreviation of "tue es", which
tranlates to the English "do it".  I always thought this is a good
match.

 |Cheers, Warren
 --End of <YoXUN4jmj9vYUaRu@minnie.tuhs.org>

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-05-19 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-18  4:25 [TUHS] First test e-mail Warren Toomey via TUHS
2022-05-18  4:27 ` Angus Robinson
2022-05-18  4:29 ` Adam Thornton
2022-05-18  4:37   ` Larry McVoy
2022-05-18  5:02 ` Alex Musolino
2022-05-18  5:13   ` [TUHS] " Warren Toomey via TUHS
2022-05-18  5:22     ` Steve Nickolas
2022-05-18  6:57   ` Dr Iain Maoileoin
2022-05-18  6:18 ` Kenneth Goodwin
2022-05-18  6:25   ` Dave Horsfall
2022-05-19  4:56     ` Dave Horsfall
2022-05-19  5:23       ` [TUHS] Re: Pronunciation Warren Toomey via TUHS
2022-05-19  6:31         ` Steve Nickolas
2022-05-19  6:42           ` Tomasz Rola
2022-05-19  6:38         ` Dave Horsfall
2022-05-19 12:22         ` Steffen Nurpmeso [this message]
2022-05-19 11:49       ` [TUHS] Re: First test e-mail John Cowan
2022-05-20  0:42       ` [TUHS] Pronunciation (was: First test e-mail) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2022-05-20  3:32         ` [TUHS] " Dave Horsfall
2022-05-19 12:54 [TUHS] Re: Pronunciation Norman Wilson
2022-05-19 14:23 ` Warner Losh
2022-05-19 14:39   ` Gilles Gravier

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