Pronunciation

From: Michael Everson (everson@indigo.ie)
Date: Fri May 28 1999 - 06:09:56 EDT

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Ar 20:22 -0700 1999-05-27, scríobh John Cowan:
>Rick McGowan scripsit:
>
>> If Unicode were about finding better ways to write various languages,
>> it would almost certainly be called "yunikod".
>
>BTW, how do people pronounce "Unicode" in English? I say [junikod],
>which my wife claims makes me sound like a hick. She says it ought to
>be [jun@kod] (@ = schwa).

I say [jun@kod] or [junIkod]. Just like "universe", which I wouldn't say
[junivrs]. More "unit" than "unique" in other words.

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