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hehehe … it remembers me the old
sound card test when you heard Linus
saying ‘hello,this is Linus Torvalds
and i pronounce linux as linux …’
… Let me just say that the
pronounciation is up to you … even
CentOS developers pronounce it one
time Saintoss and Saint-O-S next time
… Because of the capitals letters i
pronounce it Saint-O-S …

和

Capitalisation make no difference to
pronunciation,so if you wanted “Sent
Oh Ess” or “Kent Oh Ess” you would
need to spell it Cent O S. While
Americans can get away with “Scent
Arse” among themselves it would be
inadvisable to use this expression
elsewhere if you wanted to be taken
serIoUsly. I have been automatically
pronouncing it “Sentoss”,as it looks
Greek and I always get the “C” wrong –
if it were Greek it should (I think)
be “Kentoss”. “Cent” as a prefix has
at least 2 meanings,the number 100
and the root of Centre,my Shorter
Oxford has columns full of words
derived from them. I think it is a
good name,it has a classical
grandeur,it is short,it is not
likely to be confused with anything
else,and there will be relatively few
variant pronounciations outside of
local dialect differences. But who
cares how you say it if it boots?

我个人认为它是Cent-O-S.你如何发音取决于你：人们会理解你的意思是什么,无论你发音的方式如何(或者,如果没有,可能是时候看演讲治疗师:))