From: Jeff Carter <jrcarter@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Three simple questions
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 03:59:37 GMT
Date: 2000-10-11T03:59:37+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <39E3E647.796FF68A@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: u4s2lp1hk.fsf@der.edf.fr
Pascal Obry wrote:
>
> Frank Christiny <fchris@pdq.net> writes:
>
> > Friends,
> >
> > Having arrived recently into the green Adian world, I am trying to
> > assimilate all there is to know about this powerful, unfairly
> > maligned computer language. Most questions I have been able to
> > answer from the FAQs here and there but there are three (so far) that
> > have gone unanswered:
> >
> > 1. What is the correct pronunciation of Dr. Ichbiah's name?
> > Is the "ch" pronounced as in "Loch" or as in "each"? Is the
> > final "h" is silent?
>
> It is like in "each" and yes the "h" is silent.
I find this reply puzzling, since I think Pascal Obry is French. The CH
in French is pronounced like the SH in English fish (there may be
exceptions to this, but I've never encountered them).
--
Jeff Carter
"Perfidious English mouse-dropping hoarders."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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2000-10-09 0:00 Three simple questions Frank Christiny
2000-10-09 0:00 ` John McCabe
2000-10-09 0:00 ` Frank Christiny
2000-10-10 0:00 ` John English
2000-10-10 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
2000-10-10 0:00 ` John English
2000-10-10 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-10-11 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
2000-10-11 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-10-12 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
2000-10-12 0:00 ` The AI process (was: Three simple questions) Ted Dennison
2000-10-12 0:00 ` Marc A. Criley
2000-10-12 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
2000-10-16 0:00 ` Three simple questions Robert A Duff
2000-10-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-10-11 0:11 ` wv12
2000-10-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-10-14 3:25 ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-15 0:00 ` The Ludwig Family
2000-10-16 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-10-17 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-10-18 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-10-19 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-10-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-21 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-10-23 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-10-28 11:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-28 10:56 ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-28 10:57 ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-21 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-10-16 3:10 ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-17 0:00 ` The Ludwig Family
2000-10-16 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-10-16 0:00 ` James Hassett
2000-10-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-11 0:00 ` David Gillon
2000-10-11 0:00 ` John English
2000-10-11 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-10-11 0:00 ` mjsilva
2000-10-11 2:12 ` DuckE
2000-10-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-10-10 0:00 ` Case for case-sensitivity (Was: Three simple questions) Frank Christiny
2000-10-10 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-10-12 0:00 ` John English
2000-10-10 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-10-10 0:00 ` mjsilva
2000-10-10 0:00 ` John Magness
2000-10-10 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-10-10 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2000-10-11 0:00 ` dmitry6243
2000-10-11 0:00 ` John English
2000-10-11 0:00 ` Frank Christiny
2000-10-12 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-10-14 0:00 ` nickerson
2000-10-15 1:48 ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-15 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-10-11 4:39 ` Ken Garlington
2000-10-10 0:47 ` Three simple questions Larry Elmore
2000-10-10 1:16 ` Ed Falis
2000-10-11 3:47 ` Jeff Carter
2000-10-13 0:00 ` Philippe Torres
2000-10-13 0:00 ` Stefan Skoglund
2000-10-10 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-10-11 3:59 ` Jeff Carter [this message]
2000-10-14 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-10-10 0:42 ` Ken Garlington
2000-10-11 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
2000-10-12 1:05 ` Bjarne Bäckström
2000-10-13 0:00 ` Anders Wirzenius
2000-10-13 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
2000-10-14 3:28 ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-13 0:00 ` Bjarne Bäckström
2000-10-16 0:00 ` Anders Wirzenius
2000-10-11 0:00 ` Simon Wright
2000-10-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-11 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
2000-10-13 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-10-13 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
2000-10-13 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
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2000-10-16 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-10-16 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-10-16 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-10-16 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-10-17 0:43 ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-17 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-10-17 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-11-03 7:24 ` E. E. Cummings (was Re: Three simple questions) Robert I. Eachus
2000-10-17 0:00 ` Three simple questions Keith Thompson
2000-10-17 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
2000-10-14 0:37 ` Ken Garlington
2000-10-14 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
2000-10-14 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
2000-10-14 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
2000-10-16 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-10-16 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
2000-10-17 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
2000-10-17 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
2000-10-11 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
2000-10-11 0:00 ` Larry Hazel
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