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From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross)
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Subject: Re: ed.
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 16:34:51 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <1107tl1$fki$1@reader1.panix.com>,
Dan Cross <cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote:
>In article <1107cvd$3hr0r$2@kst.eternal-september.org>,
>Keith Thompson  <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> wrote:
>>cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) writes:
>>[...]
>>> (Those in the know refer to it as e-d, pronounced "ee dee", not
>>> "Ed" as in the short form of Edward. :-))
>>
>>Oh?  I've always heard it pronounced "ed", not "ee dee".
>>Then again, I see it in writing far more often than I hear it
>>spoken.
>
>Yup.  Brian Kernighan was in a video talking about it at a
>conference a year or two ago and mentioned it as an aside.

Aha, I found a reference: Brian Kernighan giving an interview
talks about it: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VmQlHGBwRBo

	- Dan C.