Re: tlug: (La)TeX, SGML, or ... ?

[Jonathan Byrne <jq@example.com>]

On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> According to Don~Knuth in \emph{The \TeX{}Book}
> 
> \begin{quote}
>     Insiders pronounce the \chi{} of \TeX{} as a Greek chi, not as an
>     `x', so that \TeX{} rhymes with the word blecchhh.  It's the `ch'

So it really is pronounced like you're about to hawk up a really big
greenie :-)  Now I'm wondering why Knuth (if in fact he chose the
pronunciation) would choose something with a sound that does not normally
occur in English. 

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