Re: How to pronounce "Debian"?

[Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>]

Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> writes:

> On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 11:57:51PM +0800, Jerry Wong wrote:
>> 
>
> First off, just a subject line does not constitute a properly formed
> message.  Don't do this, it's annoying and rude.
>
> 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)

Right, because pronouncing it like "or-eh-gon" makes absolutely no sense
at all...

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