Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: Sam Edge To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How do you pronounce GCC and Cygwin? Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 12:53:17 +0100 Organization: . Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g43Brf226711 Mark Sheppardwrote in in gmane.os.cygwin on Fri, 3 May 2002 11:15:05 +0100: > I normally pronounce it with a long "i" sound (s-eye-gwin, as > in cyclops or cycle), although I've heard others pronounce it > with a short "i" sound (as in signal) as Cliff seems to. He > doesn't speak for the entire country as I'm in England too! I think the short-i sound is more appropriate since the "cy" part comes from Cygnus. > I can't see how you could pronounce GCC other than saying the > individual letters so I'm not sure why the original poster > asks about that. You could possibly pronounce it as the contracted expletive "Jeez!" ;-) -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/