Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!muddcs!jarthur!dhosek From: dhosek@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Donald Hosek) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: TeX pronounciation Keywords: How, why? Message-ID: <878@muddcs.Claremont.EDU> Date: 18 Sep 88 03:47:41 GMT References: <374@polyof.UUCP> Sender: news@muddcs.Claremont.EDU Reply-To: dhosek@jarthur.UUCP (Donald Hosek) Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA Lines: 8 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