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Article #5127Re: TeX pronounciation
From: Les Earnest
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 1988 18:03
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 1988 18:03
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In article <Sep.8.09.09.55.1988.1942@elbereth.rutgers.edu>
cje@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Cthulhu's Jersey Epopt) writes:
>I say "lay-tech"
>because 1) the t-e-x root comes from "TeX" so I figure it should be pronounced
>that way, and 2) the full word looks like the word "latex" ("lay-tex"), so I
>figure the first syllable should similarly have the long "a".
It is usually pronounced "la tech" around the Stanford Computer Science
Department.
Les Earnest Phone: 415 723-9729
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!purdue!decwrl!labrea!polya!Gang-of-Four!les From: les@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Les Earnest) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: TeX pronounciation Keywords: How, why? Message-ID: <3886@polya.Stanford.EDU> Date: 8 Sep 88 18:03:29 GMT References: <374@polyof.UUCP> <Sep.8.09.09.55.1988.1942@elbereth.rutgers.edu> Sender: news@polya.Stanford.EDU Reply-To: les@Gang-of-Four.UUCP (Les Earnest) Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University Lines: 12