Re: How to pronounce "Debian"?
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 08:43:59 -0500
From: will trillich <will@serensoft.com>
>On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 02:30:58AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 12:22:23AM -0500, will trillich wrote:
>>> for example, how should 'calliope' be prounounced, eh?
>>> CAL-ee-ope? sure looks that way -- but no, it's
>>> cal-EYE-o-pee.
>> Actually, no. To me, it looks like it should be
>>ak-TWAL-ee, no. tew mee, it LOW-ox lih-KE it sho-ULD bee
>> pronounced like the latter. . . .
>english is of course a language saturated in exceptions . . .
Back to `Debian'. Both de- & -ian are common in English, & it's
a tossup whether a reader chancing upon `Debian' for the first time will
favor `De-' or `-ian'. Hence ehb vs eeb.
Now hear Kingsley Amis's narrator in _The Green Man_: `Other people's
priorities are endlessly odd.'
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