It’s Saturday and we’re at loose ends. LinuxFreak braves the
waters of ‘i’ as in “pie” and ‘i’ as in ‘ichthyosaur.’ LinuxFreak
offers:
“Pronouncing the word “ Linux” is one of the great
mysteries of the Linux world. Americans pronounce the name Linus
with a long i sound, as in pie. However, because Linux was
originally based on a small, PC-based implementation of UNIX called
“Minix” (pronounced with a short i), the actual pronunciation of
Linux preserves this characteristic-it’s LIH-nucks. Think
Finnish.”
and they’ve thoughtfully included the infamous “Helloooo, this is
Linus Torvalds” .au we’ve never been able to hear clearly enough to
have an opinion over.
Killjoys need not apply.