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Offline psxphill

Re: Poll: How do you pronounce 68K CPUs?
« on: January 21, 2012, 09:18:28 AM »
Quote from: TheBilgeRat;676659
So it looks like the Germans and the Americans do the "20, 30" etc, and the Brits do the "oh X oh".
 
Silly british. :D

It depends on the context.
 
During a conversation about amiga accelerators I would use oh twenty, oh thirty, oh forty, oh sixty etc.
 
If that would lead to ambiguity then I would say sixty eight thousand and thirty etc.
 
For the 68000 I would always say sixty eight thousand. The 68010 would probably always be sixty eight thousand and ten, but it's largely irrelevant.
 
I used to pronounce linux the way americans would (line-uks), however linus pronounces it differently.
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/SillySounds/
 
ubuntu is supposed to be oo-boon-too, but it seems to be pronounced oo-bun-too around here. I can't remember using it in conversation, but I'd probably use the latter.
 
btw I'm british.
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Offline psxphill

Re: Poll: How do you pronounce 68K CPUs?
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2012, 01:09:28 PM »
Quote from: Kesa;676803
Does that include his Finnish accent?

linux is a finnish word, so to pronounce it correctly you have to use a finnish accent.
 

Offline psxphill

Re: Poll: How do you pronounce 68K CPUs?
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2012, 05:30:02 AM »
Quote from: kedawa;676889
How does he pronounce his name then?
I say Linux the same way he does, but I would pronounce his name like the peanuts character.

No thats wrong. Peanuts is why everyone says linux wrong.