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Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote:
That leaves the question how to pronounce DEHB, ee, un, deeb and e.
DEHB-ee-un would presumably rhyme with day bay soon, right? (Just
kidding.)
Hopefully that is reasonably clear and unambiguous to anyone whose
English is good
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On Thursday 17 October 2002 10:00, Craig Dickson wrote:
Debian is a contraction of the names Deborah and Ian, so I've always
pronounced it accordingly, with the stress on the first syllable:
DEHB - ee - un
Does anyone say it differently?
I
Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote:
That leaves the question how to pronounce DEHB, ee, un, deeb and e.
DEHB-ee-un would presumably rhyme with day bay soon, right? (Just
kidding.)
DEHB: rhymes with EBB or WEB.
ee: rhymes with BEE or SEA.
un: rhymes with FUN or SON.
Emphasis on DEHB, which is why it's in
on Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:30:58PM +0100, Rüdiger Kuhlmann insinuated:
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On Thursday 17 October 2002 10:00, Craig Dickson wrote:
Debian is a contraction of the names Deborah and Ian, so
I've always pronounced it accordingly, with the stress on the
on Tue, 29 Oct 2002 02:06:04PM -0800, Craig Dickson insinuated:
Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote:
Guess what we have an international agreed upon phonetical
alphabet for.
Perhaps I'm misremembering, but the internationally agreed-upon
phonetic alphabet isn't perfectly expressible in 7-bit ASCII, is
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.
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 11:01:00 +0100
From: Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
. . . a tossup whether a reader chancing upon `Debian' for the
Could anybody make an official audio file for Debian pronounciation and maybe
put it in the Debian.org for those who are interesting in pronounciation?
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On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 08:32:07AM +0330, Arash Bijanzadeh wrote:
Could anybody make an official audio file for Debian pronounciation and maybe
put it in the Debian.org for those who are interesting in pronounciation?
I'll do it, but I will need to know where to send it.
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On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 12:02:16AM +0100, jerry k wrote:
It's a toss-up for americans. No-one from the UK would ever say 'Deebian'
I think Commonwealth English influence from western Canada and it's
physical, economic and political ties to the PacNW is probably what
causes us to reflexively
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 12:02:16AM +0100, jerry k wrote:
Wendell Cochran wrote:
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.
It's a toss-up for americans.
For Cuban-Americans it is much easier: we just say it in Spanish. Debián.
jerry k wrote:
Wendell Cochran wrote:
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.
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 06:25:17AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
For Cuban-Americans it is much easier: we just say it in Spanish. Debián.
You might be able to answer how to compose characters in EMACS then...
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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 11:01:00 +0100
From: Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
. . . a tossup whether a reader chancing upon `Debian' for the
first time will favor `De-' or `-ian'. Hence ehb vs eeb.
It's a toss-up for americans. No-one from the UK would ever say
'Deebian'
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
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 08:43:59AM -0500, will trillich wrote:
medicine -- med-ih-sin, not med-ih-see-nay
Er, no. Medicine is pronounce med-sin. The med-ih-sin
pronounciation is a relatively recent corruption.
Simon
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Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 08:43:59 -0500
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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
Wendell Cochran wrote:
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.
It's a toss-up for americans. No-one from the UK would ever say 'Deebian'
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On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 09:12:12AM -0700, Wendell Cochran wrote:
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.
...common... first time...
I think the ones who
On 0, will trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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all that remains is determining the 'right' sylLAble (and finding
the etymological heritage of each and every word). :)
You have hit the nail right, squarely on the head here. A word's
pronunciation depends entirely on its history. Since
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 pronounced like the latter.
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On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 10:52:07PM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt wrote:
On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 22:47, Richard Beri wrote:
I cannot stop myself from referring to it as deeb-ian.
I think it also has to do with the way I first pronounced it in my head
when I first read about Debian. Long before I
On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 08:28, Kent West wrote:
Paul Johnson wrote:
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 10:59:03PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote:
Well, the capital city is called bus-ten (ten that rhymes with ster
above), right?
Nah, it's more like bah-stin. Are you wicked re-tah-ded or
Eric G. Miller wrote:
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 11:48:41PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 11:32:31AM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote:
Then you've got the people from Mass. that think Worcester is
pronounced woo-ster instead of wur-ses-ter! Clearly, that place
name has three
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 10:57:37AM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote:
Actually, if we're getting really specific, the natives call
or-eh-gun home.
My point exactly. This is why anyone actually from Oregon shouldn't be
insulting others' pronunciations, because they can't even pronounce the
name
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:39:39AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
Second, it's pronounced deb-ee-an, as opposed to deeb-ee-an, the way
So, Debian Linux is: deb-ee-an lee-noox, right?
And, Debian GNU/Linux: ... gnoo ..., correct?
Oki
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Second, it's pronounced deb-ee-an, as opposed to deeb-ee-an, the way
Slackware users pronounce the name of our
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