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RE: How to pronounce "Debian"?




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Johnson [mailto:baloo@ursine.dyndns.org]
> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 3:40 AM
> To: List, debian-user
> Subject: Re: How to pronounce "Debian"?

> Second, it's pronounced deb-ee-an, as opposed to "deeb-ee-an," the way
> Slackware users pronounce the name of our distro.  (Similarly, Oregon
> is pronounced orygun, not aragone, orygone, aragun, or any of the
> other pronounciations used in California and other places similarly
> known for smoking crack)

It's not pronounced "California", it's pronounced "Lowell
Massachusetts".

http://www.dctvny.org/videolibrary/library/urbanmain.html

(Yes I'm from near there but all we ever use is glue.)


Erik



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