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Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago

The "i" in Linux and Linus have different pronunciations even when they shouldn't.

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The "i" in Linux and Linus have different pronunciations even when they shouldn't.

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Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago

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You can hear him pronounce his name on a kernel.org file, linked here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Linus-linux.ogg

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