Cygwin Pronunciation
Gerald Combs
gerald at ethereal.com
Wed Aug 10 14:11:46 CDT 2005
Jason Clinton wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 August 2005 11:40, you wrote:
>
>>Guess I won't be having Gyros for lunch...
>
>
> 'Gyro', 'cygni' and 'cygnus' are Greek; not English.
Gyro and Cygnus are both in the Merriam-Webster, Dictionary.com, and
Wiktionary dictionaries of the English language (I don't have access to
the OED). Does that not, by definition, make them English?
Cygnus and cygni both have Latin etymologies, BTW.
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