Re: Syllabic consonants (was: Re: Beek)

On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 04:48:51PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> > One more note: LaTeX is pronounced [lA'tEk], not ['lej.teks].
>
> Really?  TeX is [tEx], so I would assume that LaTeX is [lAtEx].
> (TeX is short for "techne".)
Well, the Jargon File agrees with you:

        TeX fans insist on the correct (guttural) pronunciation, and the
        correct spelling (all caps, squished together, with the E depressed
        below the baseline; the mixed-case ‘TeX’ is considered an
        acceptable kluge on ASCII-only devices).

And <X> for /x/ certainly makes more sense than <X> for /k/.  I was
just repeating the way I learned to pronounce it in college.
At a geek school, too.  For shame, Georgia Tech College of
Computing!

Thanks for the correction.

-Mark