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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things Date: 18 Nov 1996 16:25:40 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <56q2m4$8db@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <55vhpf$q3o@mail1.wg.waii.com> <560146$t9c@mail1.wg.waii.com> <E0L92J.4tM@world.std.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:26522 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1552 alt.folklore.computers:124850 dp@world.std.com (Jeff DelPapa) wrote: > (or possibly native Check speakers who had vowels, but never wrote > them down. ex: Plzn, a town famous for its beer. Plzen' is the correct spelling (where the n' is a single consonant). All this does only work since the Czechs are really able to pronounce the `l' in this name. They can also pronounce an `r', as in `prst' (which means `finger' IIRC). Btw., `Czech', not `Check'. The latter is something different (even in British English where people know how to differentiate between `check' and `cheque', unlike you Americans ;-). -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j