[Tfug] OT: Hacker Slang

[Eduardo Bernal]

I've always pronounced it "ch-mod" and "chown" rhyming with "clone",
probably a sci-fi influence at work; they look like the names of aliens.
What about shell names? Does anybody else say "seesh" for csh, "teesh"
for tcsh" and "kaysh" for ksh (leading, of course, to "zeesh" for zsh
and prompting me to say "Sheesh!" aloud)

Ed

Leo Przybylski wrote:
> 
> One of my favorites...
> 
> C-H-mod or Ch-mod? Likewise with C-H-own or Ch-own and just about
> everything else that starts with 'ch'. Ch-mod has always been very
> awkward for my tongue.
> 
> &Leo();

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