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From: dhosek@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Donald Hosek)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: TeX pronounciation
Keywords: How, why?
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Date: 18 Sep 88 03:47:41 GMT
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TeX is pronounced "Tech" (as in technology). Anybody who calls it Teks (as
in Texas) is wrong. In the first chapter of the TeXbook, Knuth explains why
its pronounced the way it is, in short (1) It isn't really t-e-x, it's tau-
epsilon-chi (thus the capitalized X), as in the greek word texnos meaning
both art and science (I may be a little off, I'm going from memory here).
(2) the name Tex is already taken.

-dh