Re: Pronunciation of "Unicode"

From: Tex Texin (texin@progress.com)
Date: Fri Jul 14 2000 - 18:40:09 EDT

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Can we settle "tomato" and "potato" before we get into more recent
terminology?

And do we know which locale we are debating the pronounciation of?
Michael is in Ireland, not sure where John hangs his hat.
Maybe "Unicode" should be in the locale of San Jose, as its point of
origin?

Michael Everson wrote:
>
> 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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