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The letters of the name are meant to represent the capital Greek letters Τ (tau), Ε (epsilon), and Χ (chi), as TeX is an abbreviation of Ancient Greekτέχνη(tékhnē), which is also the root word of technical.
1986, Jacques Desarmenien, TEX for Scientific Documentation: Second European Conference, Strasbourg, France, June 19-21, 1986. Proceedings, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 41:
TFFI-mode makes it possible for BibTeX to work on plain TeX documents as well.
^ The final consonant of TeX is intended by its developer to be pronounced similar to loch or Bach. However, English speakers often pronounce it /tɛk/, like the first syllable of technical.
