MATE Desktop

[Liam Proven]

On 25 July 2012 23:15, Doug <dmcgarrett at optonline.net> wrote:


> I think you Brits are correct in this.  After all, Linux (Line-ux) was
> invented by Linus (Line-us) Torwalds (SP?).  I don't know why
> most Americans like the "Lin" pronunciation.

Linus is one of the 300,000-odd /finlandssvenskar/ - a
Swedish-speaking native of Finland. He does not speak Finnish (or only
a little).

He pronounces his name "lee-nooss" and his OS as "lee-nooks", and it's
his, so his word is inerrant. :-)

Swedish long vowels sound a little odd in English so our "linn-ucks"
is just an approximation.

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