chari@nueces.cactus.org (Christopher M. Whatley) (09/15/89)
Well, I had always thought that TeX was pronounced as "tecks" but, yesterday, someone said it was pronounced "teck". Well, which is right? Chris -- Chris Whatley chari@nueces.cactus.org P.O. Box 50254 !nueces!chari@cs.utexas.edu Austin, TX 78763 chari@walt.cc.utexas.edu 512/499-0475
phil@delta.eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre) (09/18/89)
In article <1989Sep14.213548.6704@nueces.cactus.org> chari@nueces.UUCP (Christopher M. Whatley) writes: > >Well, I had always thought that TeX was pronounced as "tecks" but, >yesterday, someone said it was pronounced "teck". Well, which is >right? Go read chapter 1 of The TeXBook: "Insiders pronounce the X of TeX as a Greek chi, not as an 'x', so that TeX rhymes with the word blecchhh. It's the 'ch' sound in Scottish words like loch or German words like ach; it's Spanish 'j' and a Russian 'kh'." Although I don't necessarily agree with all of his language examples, (and I can't seem to find "blecchhh" in my English dictionary), I would say that your "someone" was closer to correct that you were. William LeFebvre Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Northwestern University <phil@eecs.nwu.edu>
zs04+@andrew.cmu.edu (Zachary T. Smith) (09/19/89)
the letters are tau-epsilon-chi, so it's pronounced neither tecks nor teck, but tehk. rhymes with blech. see the TeXbook by donald knuth -Zach T. Smith (zs04+@andrew.cmu.edu)
daved@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (david.dougherty) (09/20/89)
Come on! Give me a break!! Of all the inane things to talk about. TeX is a wonderful piece of software, the complexity of which is difficult to fully grasp. Wouldn't it be more ap- propriate to discuss the mysteries of this wonderfully expressive language, instead of beating around the bush about something so ridiculous. Gawd, even DEK didn't spend that much time talking about it!