Pixel...oh well!! Since it's been a 'pet peeve' of mine for
the past year or so, I had to get it off my chest sooner or
later, now I'm done. Thanks!
Maybe you could leave the e in any future new names? :-)
Alan
Pixel wrote:
>
> Alan Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Pixel...ah ha! I've been waiting to say this to someone, and
> > you're it!!
> >
> > Speaking as a native American English speaker, I wish you guys
> > who use the last half of manDRAKE to name the utilities would
> > please quit dropping the final E (making drake into drak).
> >
> > The reason for this request is that in English, that final,
> > silent E has an effect on the pronunciation of the A (drAkE).
> > When the silent E is there then the A gets pronounced just
> > like the letter A is prounced in the aplphabet, it called a
> > long A.
> >
> > But when you remove the silent E (drAk) the A changes
> > pronounciation to a short A as in the word 'at'.
>
> - many french here, and for froggies, tis just the same without or with the E.
> - too late to modify all these progs (not worth the trouble)
> - anyway i can decide that DrakX should be pronounced drakex (don't see why only
> english should be used to decide the prononciation, guess how linucks is
> pronounced is france!)
