[LUNI] Quick question on how to pronounce something

Mike Scott luni at pyewacket.org
Fri Sep 21 10:02:56 CDT 2007


> For the longest time I always just said the letters S A T A when talking about 
> SATA drives (usually online, I rarely talked to people in person about it).  
> Then I was talking to someone and they kept saying "say-ta" and I had no clue 
> what they were talking about.

I always pronounced the first "A" as Ah (like father) so I say SahTah. 
I have heard others pronounce the a as you do.  I know Canadians tend to
do this to vowels (ask a Canadian how they pronounce Linux and it sounds
more like Lie-nucks.

- Mike Scott



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