I normally pronounce it with a long "i" sound (s-eye-gwin, as in cyclops or cycle), although I've heard others pronounce it with a short "i" sound (as in signal) as Cliff seems to. He doesn't speak for the entire country as I'm in England too!
I can't see how you could pronounce GCC other than saying the individual letters so I'm not sure why the original poster asks about that. Mark. -----Original Message----- From: Cliff Hones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 02 May 2002 20:38 To: Vsevolod Buzinov; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How do you pronounce GCC and Cygwin? > Please tell me how do you pronounce GCC and Cygwin? Here in England we say: Jee Sea Sea and SIG-win Across the pond, and in the antipodes, it could well be different, though :-). -- Cliff -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
