Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 23 Jun, tboy wrote about "How to pronouce "Debian"?" > > Hi all, > > > > I'm not a native english speaker so i don't know how to pronouce "Debian" --- it seems somewhat strange to me. > > When i introduce Debian to my friends i have to spell it out letter by letter. Any help from native english speakers? > > > > > > At the bottom of http://www.debian.org/intro/about you can find the > statement: > > -- > Since many people have asked, Debian is pronounced 'deb ee n'. It comes > from the names of the creator of Debian, Ian Murdock, and his wife, Debra. > -- > > Other words that start the same are: > > debit deb-it > debonair deb-onair > debutant deb-utant > > Other words that sound the same on the end, not the best but all I > could think of, > > european europ-ean > mediterranean mediterran-ean > Further to this I understand the stress to be on the first syllable - DEBian. May well be wrong though :-), frankie > > Hope this helps, > -- > Brian > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mechanical Engineering servis@purdue.edu > Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null -- ,-----------------------------------------------------------------------------. > Frankie | Drum'n'Bass tunes, samples and links. < > frankie@skunkpussy.dhis.org | http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk/ < `-----------------------------------------------------------------------------'
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