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Re: silly question



On Sunday 13 March 2005 10:49 pm, Duncan Anderson wrote:

> I say "Debian" (rhyming with "ebb") you say "Debian" (rhyming with 
> "dweeb") and who's to say who's correct?

How about Ian Murdoch, who named the distro after his girlfriend, 
Deborah, and himself, Ian.  Once you know the origin, you realize only 
people who think Debian is pronounced deebeean are the same people who 
think Oregon is pronounced Aragone and Missouri rhymes with Stephen 
King title involving a woman with a dementedly fannish obsession for an 
author.

-- 
Paul Johnson
baloo@ursine.ca
http://ursine.ca/~baloo/

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