Re: Two trivial questions

[Steve Izma]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 05:26:39PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> Subject: Re: Two trivial questions
> 
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 05:19:56PM -0700, Dale Snell wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 2:38 PM Peter Schaffter <peter@schaffter.ca> wrote:
> > 
> > > Is there a correct pronunciation of groff?  I've been
> > > checking out YouTube videos on groff.  The uploaders
> > > all say "groff" (one syllable, like "gruff").  I say
> > > "g-roff" (to match t-roff and n-roff).
> > 
> > Count me as a happy member of the "gee-roff" camp.
> 
> I'm an n-roff, t-roff, g-roff guy.  I still have the docs that I got from
> UW-Madison in about 1982 from the CS department, nroff, troff, eqn, pic.
> Still useful today.

Maybe this is a locale issue as well -- that group of people with
a long history in the t-roff community. "g-roff" is in my ear's
cultural comfort zone.

    -- Steve

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