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Re: How to pronouncd "Emacs"?


From: Björn Lindström
Subject: Re: How to pronouncd "Emacs"?
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 02:49:19 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux)

"Jason" <realsong@hotmail.com> writes:

> I am a novice.:) I can't found it in my dictionary. Somebody knows it?

Since it originally is an abbreviation of Extended MACroS, EH-MACKS
seems like a good choice. EE-MACKS is probably just as common, though,
as well as various regional variations. (I usually pronounce it as you
would in Swedish, for example.

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Björn Lindström <bkhl@elektrubadur.se
http://bkhl.elektrubadur.se/


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