How do /you/ pronounce it?

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jhujhiti · Post by **jhujhiti** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 2:31 pm

I'm curious as to how users pronounce stuff like directories such as '/usr' and '/bin'. Personally, I tend to say (pheonetically):

dev - /dev
user - /usr
bin - bin directories (as opposed to 'bine' as in 'binaries')

Spawn of Lovechild · Post by **Spawn of Lovechild** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 2:54 pm

I largely think that the FHS is far to complex so I avoid using the "correct" path names.

but here goes

/dev - dev
/usr - U S R (since user isn't wrong it stands for UNIX System Ressources, or something like that)
/bin - bin
/etc - E T C.

But we have been here before I think, try searching the archive I seem to remember a long thread on this a few months back, with some quite amusing entries.

Crazor · Post by **Crazor** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 2:54 pm

As a German, I pronounce those I do not know what they mean like they are written.

Why is /etc called etc btw? is it like "etc."? Shouldnt be, because config files are nowhere near "et cetera", I mean, you cannon leave them out...

I admit I had to smile when I realized that pronouncing /bin as "bin" rather than "bine" means something like "recycle bin"... =)

Cossins · Post by **Cossins** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 5:37 pm

/usr - OO ES AER (trying to resemble the sound of pronouncing the names of the letter U, S and R in Danish...)
/dev - dev...
/tmp - temp
/bin - bin
/sbin - esbin
/etc - E T C (who the heck came up with 'etc' for configuration files anyway?)
/mnt - M N T (though I should probably call it 'mount')

- Simon

Soviet Bread Line · Post by **Soviet Bread Line** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 5:39 pm

Some I think of in terms of phonetics and others I just think of as words and/or phrases.

/bin - bihn
/dev - dehv
/etc - "et cetera"
/mnt - "mount"
/usr - oozer
/var - vahr

Gruffi · Post by **Gruffi** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 6:01 pm

/bin - slash-bin
/dev - slash-dev
/etc - etcetera
/mnt - m.n.t. or mount
/usr - usr
/var - slash-var

Lews_Therin · Post by **Lews_Therin** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 6:31 pm

bin - bin (as in trash bin)
etc - et cetera
mnt - mount
usr - user
var - var (as in variables)

astika · Post by **astika** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 6:34 pm

bin - bin
etc - eht-cee
mnt - mount
usr - user
var - var

SeeFue · Post by **SeeFue** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 6:42 pm

/bin - slash bin (bin is the only one where I use the slash first)
/etc - et-see (I also would like to know where etc came from)
/mnt - mount
/usr - user (Unix System Resource huh? Makes sense I guess. It's still easier to say user than U.S.R)
/var - var

What's funny, is that I almost never speak these out loud because I rarely have a spoken conversation where I have to. But this is how I "think" the pronunciations when I read them.

wishkah · Post by **wishkah** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 7:06 pm

Spawn of Lovechild wrote:I largely think that the FHS is far to complex so I avoid using the "correct" path names.

but here goes

/dev - dev
/usr - U S R (since user isn't wrong it stands for UNIX System Ressources, or something like that)
/bin - bin
/etc - E T C.

But we have been here before I think, try searching the archive I seem to remember a long thread on this a few months back, with some quite amusing entries.

I pronounce it exactly the same way (when speaking english, that is

).

Oid · Post by **Oid** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 7:35 pm

/dev = dev
/usr = user
/etc = ehtsee
/bin = bin
/mnt = mount
/var = var
/tmp = temp

Duty · Post by **Duty** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 8:49 pm

Only one difference from most of you:
/etc = ekt

gurke · Post by **gurke** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 9:23 pm

/dev -> dev
/usr -> u.s.r.
/etc -> e.t.c.
/bin -> bin
/var -> var
/lib -> lib
and so on

Abraxas · Post by **Abraxas** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 9:34 pm

Spawn of Lovechild wrote:since user isn't wrong it stands for UNIX System Ressources, or something like that

Universal System Resources.

Gibberx · Post by **Gibberx** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 9:52 pm

Abraxas wrote:
Spawn of Lovechild wrote:since user isn't wrong it stands for UNIX System Ressources, or something like that
Universal System Resources.

Even so, I'll still pronounce it "user"...

(I say "slash" in front of everything)
/usr = user
/home = home
/bin = bin (as in recycle bin)
/etc = et cetera (who knows...)
/tmp = temp
/var = var (rhymes with "Yarr!")
/mnt = mount
/sbin = ess bin

And yet I'm still calling GNU "Gee-En-You"... what's the FSF stance on that? I'm gonna go look it up. Isn't their animal mascot the Gnu, pronounced "New"? If I go around telling people about GNU/Linux as "New Linux", people are going to say "As opposed to Ye Olde Linux?"... Well, maybe not, but you get my drift. This is why I just say "Linux", or better yet, "Gentoo".

EDIT:

Front page of FSF.org wrote:GNU is a recursive acronym for "GNU's Not Unix"; it is pronounced "guh-noo".

Now that's just corny. Maybe I'm wrong about the animal.

christsong84 · Post by **christsong84** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 10:13 pm

/usr = user
/home = home
/bin = bin (as in recycle bin)
/etc = e.t.c.
/tmp = temp
/var = var (rhymes with "Yarr!")
/mnt = mount
/sbin = ess bin

linux as in first syllable rhymes with bin and second syllable rhymes with lucks

oniq · Post by **oniq** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 10:30 pm

Gibberx wrote:
Abraxas wrote:
Spawn of Lovechild wrote:since user isn't wrong it stands for UNIX System Ressources, or something like that
Universal System Resources.
Even so, I'll still pronounce it "user"...

(I say "slash" in front of everything)
/usr = user
/home = home
/bin = bin (as in recycle bin)
/etc = et cetera (who knows...)
/tmp = temp
/var = var (rhymes with "Yarr!")
/mnt = mount
/sbin = ess bin

Other than saying slash in front of everything, that is what I call them.

G-Style · Post by **G-Style** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 12:08 am

/bin - bihn
/dev - dev
/etc - etcetera
/mnt - mount
/usr - user
/var - var
/tmp - temp

NecroticFlower · Post by **NecroticFlower** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 12:27 am

/etc - slash ET-See
/usr - slash User
/bin - slash Bin
/sbin - slash ES-Bin
/mnt - slash Mount
/var - slash VAR

hence ... say /var/log is said: slash var slash log
and say /usr/bin is said: slash user slash bin

usually though for the second slash i leave off the slash and just say like: slash var log or slash user bin

steel300 · Post by **steel300** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 12:27 am

/bin -> bin (as in trash bin)
/boot -> boot
/dev -> dev
/etc -> e.t.c.
/home -> home
/lib -> l.i.b.
/mnt -> mount
/opt -> opt (as in optical)
/proc -> prok
/root -> root
/sbin -> s. bin (as in trash bin)
/sys -> sys (as in system)
/tmp -> temp
/usr -> user
/var -> var

Moofed · Post by **Moofed** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 2:57 am

Stuff in blue are my changes.

steel300 wrote:/bin -> bin (as in trash bin)
/boot -> boot
/dev -> dev
/etc -> e.t.c. --> et cetera
/home -> home
/lib -> l.i.b. --> lib (rhymes with rib)
/mnt -> mount
/opt -> opt (as in optical)
/proc -> prok
/root -> root
/sbin -> s. bin (as in trash bin)
/sys -> sys (as in system)
/tmp -> temp
/usr -> user
/var -> var

Roguelazer · Post by **Roguelazer** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 3:02 am

/bin -> bin (like what you put stuff in)
/boot -> boot (like the shoe)
/dev -> dev (rhymes with bev)
/etc -> e.t.c
/home -> home
/lib -> lib (just like the beginning of "liberty")
/lost+found -> Lost and Found
/no -> no (what is this? beats me...)
/opt -> opt (beginning of option)
/proc -> proc (rhymes with crock)
/root -> root (a carrot is one)
/sbin -> ess bin
/sys -> sys (sounds kinda like the sound a snake makes, replacing h with s)
/tmp -> temp
/usr -> user
/var -> var (rhymes with far)

bleakcabal · Post by **bleakcabal** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 3:38 am

etc is for etcetera which is an old latin locution.
When I say latin I mean the language from which french, spanish and italian is derived and not latin like in samba, etc.

It's pronounced :
ay-chay-tay-rah
With no pause between the chay and tay.

I think it means something like : and so on ( but not exactly, sorry when I try to say what it means I can only think of french equivalents )

frekiR · Post by **frekiR** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 5:03 am

like the most of the people that have answord i pronounce it like:
/dev - dev
/usr - u s r
/etc - e t c

grover · Post by **grover** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 6:58 am

Spawn of Lovechild wrote:/usr - U S R (since user isn't wrong it stands for UNIX System Ressources, or something like that)

AFAIK Unix System Resources was made up after the fact. USR did originally stand for USER as it was where users home directories and binaries were kept in earlier versions of Unix.