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Re: How to pronouncd "Emacs"?
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Björn Lindström |
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Re: How to pronouncd "Emacs"? |
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Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:53:01 +0100 |
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Pascal Bourguignon <spam@thalassa.informatimago.com> writes:
> <text, tool> /ee'maks/ (Editing MACroS, or Extensible MACro
> System, GNU Emacs) A popular screen editor for Unix and
> most other operating systems.
Hm, it seems I had the rationale of the abbreviation wrong.
Anyway, I wouldn't say that any of the dictionaries are authorities on
actual usage. (Even if EE-MAKS is probably one of the more common).
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Björn Lindström <bkhl@elektrubadur.se
http://bkhl.elektrubadur.se/