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mooism2 on April 22, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Before naming your startup, read this.

The X in "LaTeX" is not an English X but a Greek X (chi). I can't think of any actual English word where the X is pronounced like that.

(But yeah, it's not obvious to me whether "xort" should be pronounced "zort" or "ksort".)

VigUi7vv8G2 on April 23, 2012 | [–]

So in that case LaTeX is supposed to be pronounced like the spanish word for milk, "Lachee"? (Or I guess 'latechee', technically but if that were the case everyone would drop the 't' sound)

stavros on April 23, 2012 | [–]

Well, it's actually TeX that's pronounced with a chi. Lamport doesn't care either way.

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