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Re:The lost letters of the English alphabet by fnj on Monday January 16, 2017 @04:44PM (#13413291)
/usr may be pronounced "user" for convenience, but it was conceived as "Unix System Resources directory", not "user directory".
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Re:The lost letters of the English alphabet by grzm on Monday January 16, 2017 @04:47PM (#13413321)
I believe that's a backronym.

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/usr....

In current Unices, /usr is where user-land programs and data (as opposed to 'system land' programs and data) are. The name hasn't changed, but it's meaning has narrowed and lengthened from "everything user related" to "user usable programs and data". As such, some people may now refer to this directory as meaning 'User System Resources' and not 'user' as was originally intended.

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Re:The lost letters of the English alphabet by tomjakubowski on Monday January 16, 2017 @05:11PM (#13413483)
I like "oo-zer" which is both easier to say and less confusable with "user".
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Re:The lost letters of the English alphabet by ben_bai on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @01:23PM (#13419776)
In ye olden days oft UNIX, users home directorys lived in /usr/username.
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