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[Richard Meyer]

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>On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Richard Meyer wrote:

>> While you had him, you should have asked him to pronounce Linux in
English,
>> 'cause I still prefer lie-nux to linnix (same sound both "i"s).

>Too late now, he has a Californian accent. Fortunately a recording exists
>on one or two websites. eg

>http://www.paul.sladen.org/pronunciation/torvalds-says-linux.au


Is this a new one? There was a .wav going round the 'net at one stage where
the man said "Heloo, my name ees Leenoos Torvalds und I pronounce leenooks
as leenooks". And before anyone tells him that I'm making fun of his
accent, I freely admit that his English, even then, was streets ahead of my
Finnish or Swedish.

RichardM