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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.uoregon.edu!news.algonet.se!news From: pgd@algonet.se (Per Lindqvist) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 04:10:26 GMT Organization: AlgoNet Public Access Node, Stockholm Lines: 11 Message-ID: <32987de0.1559705@193.12.207.207> References: <55vhpf$q3o@mail1.wg.waii.com> <560146$t9c@mail1.wg.waii.com> <E0L92J.4tM@world.std.com> <56q2m4$8db@innocence.interface-business.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: bengt.algonet.se NNTP-Posting-User: b319c0acb8598648d93c87732e2a5b740 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99e/16.227 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:26645 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1595 alt.folklore.computers:125129 j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) wrote: > Plzen' is the correct spelling (where the n' is a single consonant). > All this does only work since the Czechs are really able to pronounce > the `l' in this name. They can also pronounce an `r', as in `prst' > (which means `finger' IIRC). Another classic language, sanskrit, has vowel versions of both l and r. Hey, who was deciding which sounds are vowels and which are consonants? Many languages have more vowels than english.