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There was a quote going around where when asked if he would do anything diff=
erently, he said he=E2=80=99d put an e on the end of creat.   I guess he was=
 tire of people calling it Cree-at. =20

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> On Jul 17, 2018, at 8:20 AM, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
>=20
> Nemo <cym224@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
>> 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.
>=20
> 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'.)
>=20
> Undoubtedly there were many regional differences... :-)
>=20
> Arnold