Re: How does Debian sound?

[Will Lowe <lowe@mail.eecis.udel.edu>]

> * D, like the d in day
> * e, like the e in pet
> * b, much softer than the b in bass
> * i, like see
> * a, like a in father (american english)
> * n, like in now

for me (i'm on the middle atlantic seaboard in the US,  
south of Philadelphia),  it's almost the same.  My "b" is a little harder 
than yours,  and "ian" goes
	: e as in "see"
	: an as in "Annie"

	So it's three syllables,  "Deb'-i-an",  with the accent on the "deb".

                     					Will

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