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1 pronunciation guide for unix 2 29 Apr 97 3 4 5 6 7 How do I pronounce "vi" , or "!", or "/*", or ...? 8 You can start a very long and pointless discussion by wondering 9 about this topic on the net. Some people say "vye", some say 10 "vee-eye" (the vi manual suggests this) and some Roman numerologists 11 say "six". How you pronounce "vi" has nothing to do with whether 12 or not you are a true Unix wizard. 13 14 Similarly, you'll find that some people pronounce "char" as "care", 15 and that there are lots of ways to say "#" or "/*" or "!" or 16 "tty" or "/etc". No one pronunciation is correct - enjoy the regional 17 dialects and accents. 18 19 Since this topic keeps coming up on the net, here is a comprehensive 20 pronunciation list that has made the rounds. 21 22 The Pronunciation Guide 23 ----------------------- 24 version 2.5 25 26 Names derived from UNIX are marked with *, names derived from C are marked 27 with +, names derived from (Net)Hack are marked with & and names deserving 28 further explanation are marked with a #. The explanations will be given at 29 the very end. 30 31 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 32 -- SINGLE CHARACTERS -- 33 34 SPACE, blank, ghost& 35 36 ! EXCLAMATION POINT, exclamation (mark), (ex)clam, excl, wow, hey, boing, 37 bang#, shout, yell, shriek, pling, factorial, ball-bat, smash, cuss, 38 store#, potion&, not*+, dammit*# 39 40 " QUOTATION MARK, (double) quote, dirk, literal mark, rabbit ears, 41 double ping, double glitch, amulet&, web&, inverted commas 42 43 # CROSSHATCH, pound, pound sign, number, number sign, sharp, octothorpe#, 44 hash, (garden) fence, crunch, mesh, hex, flash, grid, pig-pen, 45 tictactoe, scratch (mark), (garden) gate, hak, oof, rake, sink&, 46 corridor&, unequal#, punch mark 47 48 $ DOLLAR SIGN, dollar, cash, currency symbol, buck, string#, escape#, 49 ding, big-money, gold&, Sonne# 50 51 % PERCENT SIGN, percent, mod+, shift-5, double-oh-seven, grapes, food& 52 53 & AMPERSAND, and, amper, address+, shift-7, andpersand, snowman, 54 bitand+, donald duck#, daemon&, background*, pretzel 55 56 ' APOSTROPHE, (single) quote, tick, prime, irk, pop, spark, glitch, 57 lurker above& 58 59 * ASTERISK, star, splat, spider, aster, times, wildcard*, gear, dingle, 60 (Nathan) Hale#, bug, gem&, twinkle, funny button#, pine cone, glob* 61 62 () PARENTHESES, parens, round brackets, bananas, ears, bowlegs 63 ( LEFT PARENTHESIS, (open) paren, so, wane, parenthesee, open, sad, 64 tool& 65 ) RIGHT PARENTHESIS, already, wax, unparenthesee, close (paren), happy, 66 thesis, weapon& 67 68 + PLUS SIGN, plus, add, cross, and, intersection, door&, spellbook& 69 70 , COMMA, tail, trapper& 71 72 - HYPHEN, minus (sign), dash, dak, option, flag, negative (sign), worm, 73 bithorpe# 74 75 . PERIOD, dot, decimal (point), (radix) point, spot, full stop, 76 put#, floor& 77 78 / SLASH, stroke, virgule, solidus, slant, diagonal, over, slat, slak, 79 across#, compress#, reduce#, replicate#, spare, divided-by, wand&, 80 forward slash, shilling# 81 82 : COLON, two-spot, double dot, dots, chameleon& 83 84 ; SEMICOLON, semi, hybrid, giant eel&, go-on# 85 86 <> ANGLE BRACKETS, angles, funnels, brokets, pointy brackets, widgets 87 < LESS THAN, less, read from*, from*, in*, comesfrom*, crunch, 88 sucks, left chevron#, open pointy (brack[et]), bra#, upstairs&, west, 89 (left|open) widget 90 > GREATER THAN, more, write to*, into/toward*, out*, gazinta*, zap, 91 blows, right chevron#, closing pointy (brack[et]), ket#, downstairs&, 92 east, (right|close) widget 93 94 = EQUAL SIGN, equal(s), gets, becomes, quadrathorpe#, half-mesh, ring& 95 96 ? QUESTION MARK, question, query, whatmark, what, wildchar*, huh, ques, 97 kwes, quiz, quark, hook, scroll&, interrogation point 98 99 @ AT SIGN, at, each, vortex, whirl, whirlpool, cyclone, snail, ape (tail), 100 cat, snable-a#, trunk-a#, rose, cabbage, Mercantile symbol, strudel#, 101 fetch#, shopkeeper&, human&, commercial-at, monkey (tail) 102 103 [] BRACKETS, square brackets, U-turns, edged parentheses 104 [ LEFT BRACKET, bracket, bra, (left) square (brack[et]), opensquare, 105 armor& 106 ] RIGHT BRACKET, unbracket, ket, right square (brack[et]), unsquare, close, 107 mimic& 108 109 \ BACKSLASH, reversed virgule, bash, (back)slant, backwhack, backslat, 110 escape*, backslak, bak, scan#, expand#, opulent throne&, slosh, slope, 111 blash 112 113 ^ CIRCUMFLEX, caret, carrot, (top)hat, cap, uphat, party hat, housetop, 114 up arrow, control, boink, chevron, hiccup, power, to-the(-power), fang, 115 sharkfin, and#, xor+, wok, trap&, pointer#, pipe*, upper-than# 116 117 _ UNDERSCORE, underline, underbar, under, score, backarrow, flatworm, blank, 118 chain&, gets#, dash#, sneak 119 120 ` GRAVE, (grave/acute) accent, backquote, left/open quote, backprime, 121 unapostrophe, backspark, birk, blugle, backtick, push, backglitch, 122 backping, execute#, boulder&, rock&, blip 123 124 {} BRACES, curly braces, squiggly braces, curly brackets, squiggle brackets, 125 Tuborgs#, ponds, curly chevrons#, squirrly braces, hitchcocks#, 126 chippendale brackets# 127 { LEFT BRACE, brace, curly, leftit, embrace, openbrace, begin+, 128 fountain& 129 } RIGHT BRACE, unbrace, uncurly, rytit, bracelet, close, end+, a pool& 130 131 | VERTICAL BAR, pipe*, pipe to*, vertical line, broken line#, bar, or+, 132 bitor+, vert, v-bar, spike, to*, gazinta*, thru*, pipesinta*, tube, 133 mark, whack, gutter, wall& 134 135 ~ TILDE, twiddle, tilda, tildee, wave, squiggle, swung dash, approx, 136 wiggle, enyay#, home*, worm, not+ 137 138 139 -- MULTIPLE CHARACTER STRINGS -- 140 141 !? interrobang (one overlapped character) 142 */ asterslash+, times-div# 143 /* slashterix+, slashaster 144 := becomes# 145 <- gets 146 << left-shift+, double smaller 147 <> unequal# 148 >> appends*, cat-astrophe, right-shift+, double greater 149 -> arrow+, pointer to+, hiccup+ 150 #! sh'bang, wallop 151 \!* bash-bang-splat 152 () nil# 153 && and+, and-and+, amper-amper, succeeds-then* 154 || or+, or-or+, fails-then* 155 156 157 -- NOTES -- 158 159 ! bang comes from old card punch phenom where punching ! code made a 160 loud noise; however, this pronunciation is used in the (non- 161 computerized) publishing and typesetting industry in the U.S. 162 too, so ... 163 Alternatively it could have come from comic books, where the 164 words each character utters are shown in a "balloon" near that 165 character's head. When one character shoots another, it is 166 common to see a balloon pointing at the barrel of the gun to 167 denote that the gun had been fired, not merely aimed. 168 That balloon contained the word "!" -- hence, "!" == "Bang!" 169 ! store from FORTH 170 ! dammit as in "quit, dammit!" while exiting vi and hoping one hasn't 171 clobbered a file too badly 172 # octothorpe from Bell System (orig. octalthorpe) 173 # unequal e.g. Modula-2 174 $ string from BASIC 175 $ escape from TOPS-10 176 $ Sonne In the "socialist" countries they used and are using all kinds 177 of IBM clones (hardware + sw). It was a common practice just 178 to rename everything (IBM 360 --> ESER 1040 etc.). 179 Of course the "dollar" sign had to be renamed - it became the 180 "international currency symbol" which looks like a circle with 181 4 rays spreading from it: 182 ____ 183 \/ \/ 184 / \ 185 \ / 186 /\____/\ 187 188 Because it looks like a (small) shining sun, in the German 189 Democratic Republic it was usually called "Sonne" (sun). 190 & donald duck from the Danish "Anders And", which means "Donald Duck" 191 * splat from DEC "spider" glyph 192 * Nathan Hale "I have but one asterisk for my country." 193 * funny button at Pacific Bell, * was referred to by employees as the "funny 194 button", which did not please management at all when it became 195 part of the corporate logo of Pacific Telesis, the holding 196 company ... 197 */ times-div from FORTH 198 = quadrathorpe half an octothorpe 199 - bithorpe half a quadrathorpe (So what's a monothorpe?) 200 . put Victor Borge's Phonetic Punctuation which dates back to the 201 middle 1950's 202 / across APL 203 / compress APL 204 / reduce APL 205 / replicate APL 206 / shilling from the British currency symbol 207 := becomes e.g. Pascal 208 ; go-on Algol68 209 < left chevron from the military: worn vertically on the sleeve to signify 210 rating 211 < bra from quantum mechanics 212 <> unequal e.g. Pascal 213 > right chevron see "< left chevron" 214 > ket from quantum mechanics 215 @ snable-a from Danish; may translate as "trunk-a" 216 @ trunk-a "trunk" = "elephant nose" 217 @ strudel as in Austrian apple cake 218 @ fetch from FORTH 219 \ scan APL 220 \ expand APL 221 ^ and from formal logic 222 ^ pointer from PASCAL 223 ^ upper-than cf. > and < 224 _ gets some alternative representation of underscore resembles a 225 backarrow 226 _ dash as distinct from '-' == minus 227 ` execute from shell command substitution 228 {} Tuborgs from advertizing for well-known Danish beverage 229 {} curly chevr. see "< left chevron" 230 {} hitchcocks from the old Alfred Hitchcock show, with the stylized profile 231 of the man 232 {} chipp. br. after Chippendale chairs 233 | broken line EBCDIC has two vertical bars, one solid and one broken. 234 ~ enyay from the Spanish n-tilde 235 () nil LISP