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Why not go to http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/SillySounds/ and see how 
Linus prefers it to be pronounced?

In article <nqdav5.h01.ln@zen>, Robert Brockway <robert@zen.humbug.org.au> 
wrote:
>I've gotta enter this debate again :-)
>
>Jason Nunn <jsno@dayworld.net.au> wrote:
>: Here's how i tactical the Lin-ix , Line-x debaticle.
>
>: a) Linus is pronounced "Lin" followed by a "ness".. hence "Lin-ness".
>: Therefore one would pronounce the first bit of Linux the same way as it's
>: inventor, hence "Lin-ix".
>
>But I pronounce Linus as in Lie-nuss, same as the guy in the peanuts
>cartoon strip :-)
>
>: ..... This is a silly debate ;).
>
>It certainly is. :-) I've been saying Lie-nucks since I started using it
>3+ years ago.  But it seems to me that the Lin-ix pronounciation is
>winning here in Brisbane, and all the people who I have talked too from
>other aussie LUGs have said Lin-ix.  I guess we Lie-nucks sayers are a
>dying breed (why does that remind me of Monty Python? :-)
>Cheers,
>        -Robert
>
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