Re: Leenooks

[- Mash <re.mash@gmail.com>]

I always thought it was pronounced LEEN UCKS as in LEE NUS Torv', 
so its LEEnooks ? where does the "nooks" come from ?


On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 17:08:24 -0500, William Ballard
<nospam_50115@alltel.net> wrote:
> There's an air conditioner company around here called Lennox.  Whenever
> I hear their commercials on TV, my ears perk up.  Lihn ucks.
> 
> Way back before I liked Linux, I used to religiously correct the
> pronuciation "Lihn ucks" using Torvald's sun .au file, "LEEnooks.'
> 
> I thought this philosophically important as it both stresses Linux's
> distinction from Unix, and also thought it important to use a
> foreigner's pronunciation to emphasize that this is a horse of another
> color.
> 
> Do you think "Joe 6-Pack" of the Windows world would be more able to
> understand what the concept of Linux is all about when they read "Lihn
> ucks" and know to pronounce it "LEEnooks."  Exercising your noodle that
> way might get more curious about what it's all about.
> 
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