I like the (rather arbitrary) answer that it's "ark" (as in "archive") except that a contributing hacker or very skilled user might be called an "archer" (as in "good shot, Robin Hood").
In truth, however, it has always been pronounced "ghoti" (as in "fish"). So, is it "SUBversion" or "subVERsion"? Actually, it's "subverSION". Little known fact. Strange but true. You may also be amazed to learn that the proper pronunciation of "Red Hat" is "Mywehaveanicelogo" and "Ubuntu" is pronounced "whaddayameanthey'reusingfedoraforonelaptopperchild?!?" Strangest of all, "IBM" is -- and really, you have to just trust me on this -- pronounced "eye bee em". Go figure. -t Ludovic Courtès wrote:
Hi, Since the list is quiet these days, I thought I'd take advantage of that to launch an interesting topic: How is one supposed to pronounce "Arch"? Rather like "ark" (as in "archive") or not? I found an occurrence of this question in the list archive but couldn't find the answer. Thanks, Ludovic. _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/
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