On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Brian Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 13:53 -0600, Dave Smith wrote: >> How do you pronounce Avahi? > > Well, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avahi_(software) the > software is named after the Wooly Lemur. Avahi is the name of the genus > to which the Lemur belongs. It's Latin and most likely follows normal > Latin rules for pronunciation. My pronunciation vote is for uh-VAH-hee
I don't have any votes for the software, because I have no idea. But just a point of disagreement. In my experience (several years of high school latin, so hardly definitive) the v is pronounced as a w in Latin. So, veni, vidi, vici is pronounced way-knee, weedy, wiki^h^h^h^h weak-ee. Therefore, following normal (ancient) Latin rules for pronunciation, it would be ah-WAH-hee. Probably not how the software is pronounced, but how I think the ancient Romans would have pronounced it. :) Derek /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
