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Re:Google shifting to “upstream first” Linux kernel approach... by vadfa on Thursday September 23, 2021 @07:26AM (#28627726)
Why is it that nobody seems to be able to spell the word "fuchsia"?
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Re:Google shifting to “upstream first” Linux kernel approach... by omnicognate on Thursday September 23, 2021 @08:14AM (#28628076)
Because it's an unusual spelling. It's a latinisation of the German surname Fuchs (after the botanist Leonhart Fuchs) and is neither pronounced consistently with the surname (Fooks) nor spelled consistently with other words containing the same "sh" phoneme rendered as "sch".

People will never reliably spell it right, so you have to wonder whether it's a great choice of name for an OS.

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Re:Google shifting to “upstream first” Linux kernel approach... by jhasse on Thursday September 23, 2021 @09:43AM (#28629005)
It isn't only a German surname but the German word for fox.
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Re:Google shifting to “upstream first” Linux kernel approach... by tgb on Thursday September 23, 2021 @08:55AM (#28628416)
Even Google misspells it: https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/

I checked the other day and it's still true.

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