Timeline for Why is "distro", rather than "distri", short for "distribution" in Linux world?
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| Mar 7, 2014 at 15:29 | comment | added | Peter Shor | @John Y: And the Oxford Dictionaries Online says that both of those sounds are short 'i's in British English (which is the pronunciation that I use, despite being American, and assuming I pronounce the second syllable of vegetable, which I usually don't). | |
| Mar 7, 2014 at 15:14 | comment | added | John Y | @PeterShor and MattЭллен: I fully acknowledge that some (maybe most today, I don't know) dictionaries do list the second 'e' in the 4-syllable vegetable pronunciation as a schwa. | |
| Mar 7, 2014 at 15:13 | comment | added | John Y | @MattЭллен: I'm not completely sure which sound in vegetable Peter was referring to. If we're breaking at schwas, then the potential shortening under consideration seems to be vegeto (with a possible two-syllable pronunciation somewhat like vej-toe). Most AmE speakers I've heard don't pronounce the second 'e' in vegetable at all (indeed this is the leading pronunciation listed in my dictionary); the more stilted or "proper-sounding" 4-syllable pronunciation has the 2nd syllable stressed just enough to be listed as a short 'i' in my dead-tree American Heritage Dictionary. | |
| Mar 7, 2014 at 14:54 | comment | added | John Y | @kinokijuf: It sounds like you are either sheltered or don't know the range of sounds that are denoted by schwa. | |
| Mar 6, 2014 at 21:23 | comment | added | MrHen | @kinokijuf: There are alternative pronunciations but this was pulled straight from the dictionary. Something I have personally heard is the "o" from "distro" getting pushed back into "distribution" to sound like "distrobution." shrug | |
| Mar 6, 2014 at 21:08 | comment | added | kinokijuf | I have never heard anyone say “distrəbution”. | |
| Mar 6, 2014 at 11:12 | comment | added | Matt E. Эллен | That the shortening of a word at a schwa to o instead of i is not a given. | |
| Mar 5, 2014 at 18:23 | comment | added | MrHen | We also shorten vegetable to "veg". What's your point? | |
| Mar 5, 2014 at 17:56 | comment | added | Peter Shor | It's the same sound as in vegetable, and we shorten that to veggie. | |
| Mar 5, 2014 at 16:17 | history | answered | MrHen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |