On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 11:02:02AM +0000, Lars Hecking thus spoke:
> Reed Lai writes:
> > seniors,
> >
> > how to pronounce "mutt"?
>
> Mutt is pronounced as "mutt". Can it be more simple?
*snicker*.... But perhaps his first language isn't english? It could read
as "moot"... For the record, it's "m - short u - t".
> ;-)))
Smiley noted...I just thought it was probably a sincere question from
someone whose native tongue isn't the Queen's English.
> Maybe M.E. could record a sound file and say something like:
> "Hello, my name is Micheal Elkins, and I pronounce 'mutt' as 'mutt'."
> and this could be put on www.mutt.org.
Better yet...it could be used as part of the installation test...there are
precedents for that as well. (sndconfig, if you've never used it under
redhat, does that)
> There are precedents :)
Actually, that settles nothing...I -still- pronounce it line-ucks, in spite
of the official pronunciation.
And if you think that's bad, I know a guy that says "queeve" when refering
to queue. :)
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