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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.

>On the other hand, I've almost always heard "vi" pronounced as
>"vee eye", not "vie" (and definitely not "six").

It's definitely "vee eye"; that's in Bill Joy's original paper
on it.  I asked Mary Ann Horton about it once and I thought she
was going to decapitate me for raising the question.

	- Dan C.

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Re: ed __ ___ ________ ____ ______. gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2026-06-08 14:12 +0000
  Re: ed. cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-06-08 19:30 +0000
    Re: ed. Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2026-06-08 14:42 -0700
      Re: ed. cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-06-09 02:26 +0000
        Re: ed. cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-06-09 16:34 +0000
      Re: ed. Anthony Howe <achowe@snert.com> - 2026-06-09 05:01 -0400

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