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Re: how to pronounce java in English

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Ewing)
Fri Jan 12 07:28:04 1996

Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 16:30:06 +1100
From: grege@optimation.com.au (Greg Ewing)
To: java-interest@java.sun.com

> From NewsGroup_comp-lang-java Thu Jan 11 08:17 EST 1996
> From: NewsGroup_comp-lang-java
> >From: jefferyc@unixg.ubc.ca (Jeffery Chow)
> Subject: Re: how to pronounce java in English
> Date: 10 Jan 1996 04:59:30 GMT
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> : I thought it was "cu-cum-ba"
> 
> <hehehe>
> 
> Actually Java is pronounced "Yava"
> 

Where do you people get such ideas. The correct pronunciation is, 
was and always will be "jah-vah"

GREG
grege@optimation.com.au

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