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- From: hlj@posix.COM (Hal Jespersen)
-
- In article <663@longway.TIC.COM> you write:
- >
- >>"... The term POSIX is expected to be pronounced pahz-icks, as in positive,
- >>not poh-six, or other variations."
- >
- >Note that this assertion appears only in the rationale and the foreword,
- >not in the body of the standard. This is because the committee could not
- >standardize a pronunciation, and in fact had no consensus on what it might be.
- >Nonetheless, there is a small clique that considers it their duty to enforce
- >what they regard as the correct pronunciation, even though they don't all
- >pronounce it the same way themselves.
-
- As the author of that footnote, I can say I know of only one person
- involved in the development of the POSIX standards who disagrees with
- the "Positive about POSIX" pronunciation. Since that person is also
- in the clique referred to above, I guess you can say that last sentence
- is actually correct, John. :-) I would be interested to see your reaction
- if people started pronouncing UNIX or USENIX differently than their
- originators intended.
-
- Hal Jespersen
-
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- Volume-Number: Volume 19, Number 103
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