OT : Re: [Tutor] a strange(r's) question

lonetwin lonetwin@yahoo.com
Mon, 22 Oct 2001 11:31:19 +0530


Hi everybody,
    Just wanted to share this ...I(along with some o' ppl here [Bombay-India])
were so used to pronouncing it is TINK-ter (as in tinker with tink-ter) !!!! 
LOL !!!

Peace
Steve

On Sunday 21 October 2001 07:04, you wrote:
>   Heh, there have been plenty of um 'discussions' about this with me and
> friends, but to quote a guy who should know alot about it - 'Tkinter
> (pronounced tea-kay-inter), ...'.  That's from John Grayson, the back cover
> of his book 'Python and Tkinter programming'.
>   Although I must admit I do usually pronounce it t-kinter in my mind :)
>
>   HTH,
>   Glen
>
> As my native language is German, I don't
> know how
>
>        Tkinter
>
> is pronounced correctly in English.
>
> Thanks for answering to this somewhat
> off-programming question
>
> Gregor Lingl
>
> P.S. As I'm teaching Python, I have to
> talk about it.

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