I tracked it down, via usenet. Here it is in english. Here it is in Swedish
I haven’t had any luck tracking down the faq, though.
:smack:
Well a guy’s gotta have hobbies. 
I just say “irregardless, I stand by my original statement.”
That seems to take it from ambiguous to wrong, according to all the posts here that have it as “Linn-nix.” (Double “n” in first syllable inserted only to clarify “short i” sound of its vowel.)
Speaking of George Bush’s errors, I remember during one of the debates in 2000 he referred to the “Loonix” operating system. I’ve always been a little disappointed that nobody picked up that ball and ran with it.
“Oh, I think you’ll find …” has the same effect. Patronizing as hell but not exactly rude.
As others have said, the context matters.
If appropriate, and you are confident of your facts, I start my retort with “I think you’ll find…”
I pretty much stick with “Bite my shiny metal ass.”
We all pronounce it: “pluh SEE bo” 
“DIE, IDIOT SCUM!” zap of the death ray
My wife is named Tara. A nice Irish name. Tar. With an ‘uh’ at the end. Not ‘tear’-‘uh’, or Terra (Gone With the Wind is to blame).
It amazes me how many people correct her name! People! Are you under the assumption that she doesn’t know how to pronounce it?
She is able to ignore it. I tend to just drive their noses into their brains.
in my imagination
I must say that this has never happened. If it did, I’d probably laugh for a moment, since I didn’t think anyone did this seriously. My friends and I do it jokingly all the time:
“Pass the n-aw-choes.”
“You mean the n-ah-choes?”
There’s your problem. One or two noses through the brain, and no one would ever mispronounce her name again. You have to set an example.
I’m wrong too often to be 100% sure on most things, so, IIRC, I say something like “I think you may be mistaken on that.” I the person insists on making an issue of it, then I’ll say, “Then we’ll just have to disagree on that.” Sometimes I have to say it more than once.
If I’m fairly certain, then, IIRC, I say that the person might be mistaken and follow immediately with something like, “The reason I know is that I was wondering the other day about it, so I looked it up.” The line is more-or-less stolen from A Fish Called Wanda when Wanda is yelling at Otto, correcting his facts, and says, “Those are all mistakes, Otto. I looked them up.” I love that line.
I just give the offender one of my patented Evil Looks™.*
*Believe me, you do not want one of those. I’ve made grown men wish they were somewhere else. Little children break out in tears. Hell, I don’t even have to be right.
“Hone in on” is, of course, incorrect.
Just because we see and hear it pretty frequently does not mean it has (yet) transitioned into proper English. We see and hear all kinds of lazy near-pronunciations and usages and they are not correct.
I hear “psghetti” for spaghetti all the time, but it’s not correct. I saw someone recently twice say she “whistled” in her beloved’s ear. I’m sure from context she meant “whispered”, got started typing it, lost interest, and finished as “whis…tled”. The newspaper referred to a “hoard” of termites in a house foundation…I’m sure they meant an unruly mob (“horde”) and not buried trasure (“hoard”). But close seems to be good enough for lazy users.
There’s a lot of lazy usage out there, and occasionally we lose a Mars probe due to someone not carefully paying attention to units of measurement and the like.
I see someone found it in a dictionary. ugh. A different dictionary gives a different take on it; Merriam-Webster online says :
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Sailboat
But… but… I don’t understand how those are pronounced differently.
BZZZT!
LYE-nux is unacceptible by any standard. (This used to be the way I pronounced it until being repeatedly chastized).
From the Linux website itself:
My preferred method of dealing with such people is to disembowel them with nail scissors and then call a minion to clear away the mess.
If I don’t happen to have nail scissors or a minion handy, I will offer a polite but firm correction.