Re: Pronunciation of "Unicode"

From: Michael Everson (everson@egt.ie)
Date: Fri Jul 14 2000 - 17:30:16 EDT


Ar 13:03 -0800 2000-07-14, scríobh John Cowan:

>I am using U+0027 to represent U+02C8, which is always to be placed before the
>syllable to which it attaches. To me, [ju 'ni kowd] would suggest
>an etymology for "Unicode" from "unique code".

Yes, but it is the Universal Character Set. "uni-" as in universal is a
productive morpheme in English; unique isn't.

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