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From: m.welle@gmx.net (Michael Welle)
Subject: [TUHS] Unix, eunuchs?
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:40:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871wtta4ga.fsf@hqltmwe01.nwc-services.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44840A4F.1060005@icpnet.pl> (Andrzej Popielewicz's message of "Mon, 05 Jun 2006 12:41:19 +0200")

Hi,

Andrzej Popielewicz <vasco at icpnet.pl> writes:
[...]
> In Oxford American Dictionary
>
> eunuch is pronounced as "yoo-nuk" (not all symbols reproduced)
> unit is "yoo-nit"
> unique is "yoo-neek"
>
> In Webster English Language Dictionary
>
> eunuch is "'yunek"
> unit is "'yunet"
> unique is "yu'nek,yu'nik"
>
> You can notice, that unix , more similar to unit or unique will be 
> pronounced differently(?).
interesting. I tend to use a more british english style, but I
pronounce the terms like in OAD.

Michael

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-06-13  7:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-03 13:57 Michael Welle
2006-06-04 20:44 ` Andrzej Popielewicz
2006-06-05 10:41 ` Andrzej Popielewicz
2006-06-05 11:20   ` Tim Bradshaw
2006-06-05 13:49   ` John Cowan
2006-06-05 14:14     ` Andrzej Popielewicz
2006-06-05 14:26       ` Wilko Bulte
2006-06-05 15:02       ` John Cowan
2006-06-13  7:19       ` Michael Welle
2006-06-05 15:13     ` Ian King
2006-06-13  7:40   ` Michael Welle [this message]
     [not found] ` <001001c6875d$69b02e60$2f01a8c0@myhome.westell.com>
2006-06-13  7:20   ` Michael Welle
2006-06-05 15:57 James Petts
2006-06-05 16:28 ` John Cowan
2006-06-06  3:41 dmr
2006-06-06  8:21 ` Andrzej Popielewicz
2006-06-06  8:24   ` Andrzej Popielewicz
2006-06-06  8:26     ` Andrzej Popielewicz
2006-06-06 10:56       ` Andrzej Popielewicz
2006-06-06  7:18 Jose R Valverde
2006-06-06 13:58 ` John Cowan
2006-06-07  2:32 dmr
     [not found] <mailman.5.1149732001.42765.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2006-06-08  5:22 ` John Chung
2006-06-09  8:30   ` Paul Osborne

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