From: bkhl@elektrubadur.se (Björn Lindström)
Subject: Re: How to pronouncd "Emacs"?
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 02:49:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <s38znejdhls.fsf@supinum.ling.uu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bq103c$2ff$1@quimby.gnus.org
"Jason" <realsong@hotmail.com> writes:
> I am a novice.:) I can't found it in my dictionary. Somebody knows it?
Since it originally is an abbreviation of Extended MACroS, EH-MACKS
seems like a good choice. EE-MACKS is probably just as common, though,
as well as various regional variations. (I usually pronounce it as you
would in Swedish, for example.
--
Björn Lindström <bkhl@elektrubadur.se
http://bkhl.elektrubadur.se/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-26 1:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-26 1:36 How to pronouncd "Emacs"? Jason
2003-11-26 1:49 ` Björn Lindström [this message]
2003-11-26 3:31 ` leo
2003-11-26 14:38 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2003-11-26 14:53 ` Björn Lindström
2003-12-06 6:30 ` Barry Margolin
2003-11-27 4:44 ` Brad Collins
[not found] ` <mailman.688.1069912541.399.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-11-27 12:56 ` David Kastrup
2003-11-26 17:03 ` Galen Boyer
2003-11-26 21:45 ` sebyte
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