Guenter Milde wrote:
>
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 18:57:22 +1200 wrote John O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > > >>in North American English -how is "LyX" pronounced?
>
> > For God's sake!
> >
> > Just pronounce it like the lych in polychromatic.
> > There is no need to attempt to aspirate the CH im true Greek of Slav
> > fashion.
> > For native speakers of English, attempts to aspirate CH or KH produce
> > unseemy gobs of
> > mucus.
>
> But then it would become [lic] or [lik], so you better do it similar to Styx
> (or, regarding the x, like fix, unix, linux, sex, Marx, ... i.e. the normal
But it is LyX not lyx ( Note your examples are all xs not CHIs )
There is a Greek letter Xi (which is transliterated as x in words like
lynx)
and is NOT the same as CHI (which is transliterated as X in words like
TeX
or as ch in words like technical or polychromatic)
> way)
>
> Guenter
>
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