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<h3>How should I pronounce “TeX”?</h3>
<p>The ‘X’ is “really” the Greek letter
Chi, and is pronounced by
English-speakers either a bit like the ‘ch’ in the Scots word ‘loch’
([x] in the IPA) or (at a pinch, if you can’t do the Greek sound) like
‘k’. It definitely is not pronounced ‘ks’ (the Greek letter with that
sound doesn’t look remotely like the Latin alphabet ‘X’).
<p>This curious usage derives from Knuth’s explanation in the TeXbook
that the name comes from the Greek word for ‘art’ or ‘craft’
(‘<em>techni</em>’),
which is the root of the English word ‘technology’. Knuth’s logo for TeX is
merely the uppercase version of the first three (Greek) letters of the
word, jiggled about a bit; we don’t use that logo (and logos like it)
in this FAQ (see
<a href="FAQ-logos.html">Typesetting TeX-related logos</a>).
<p><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=TeXpronounce">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=TeXpronounce</a>
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