[texhax] TeX pronunciation

Konstantin Karapetyan cyrtex at photonica.ru
Wed Nov 10 06:37:18 CET 2004


> And another naming question. We know TeX is pronounced as in Texas,
> but is that the Spanish or the English pronunciation?

> The books say, as in Spanish, but with names like latex, I wonder if
> people face-to-face actually say it the way it is supposed to be said.

In TeX 'X' stands for Greek letter chi and so is pronounced as strong
'h', or [kh].

Regards,

KK.




More information about the texhax mailing list