[kbutler]

Are there still people who pronounce linux lie'-nucks?

And Linus Torvalds[1] originally pronounced it with a bit more ee and oo (almost lee-nooks) than he does now[2] (lih'-nucks).

[1] https://youtu.be/uK0xXFZtJ8Q

[2] https://youtu.be/5IfHm6R5le0

And gnu and gnome and Debian and nginx and SQL and GIF and ...

The industry is full of made-up words with non-obvious or disputed pronunciations.

[iforgotpassword]

> Are there still people who pronounce linux lie'-nucks?

In German it's the stressed "ee" variant. I think with made up words that don't appear to belong to a certain language, yoiu just tend to pronounce it like it was a word in your native language.

Google in contrast just looks English because the "oo" is much more common in english, just like the "le" at the end (apart from some regions where you append "le" to nouns to make them sound small/cute).

[bradknowles]

I try to use his original pronunciation wherever and whenever I can, but most of the time I hear “Lin-ucks” with a short “I”, and I naturally respond in kind without even thinking about it.

But then there are occasionally articles like this one which remind me that I’m saying it wrong, and that I know better.