On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 09:33 -0700, George Rodier wrote: > Caveat, I am new to the LibreOffice users list. Please do let me know > where I should direct my suggestion. > > As a Canadian I recently attended LinuxFest Northwest in Bellingham, WA. > It was a great event and LibreOffice was well represented there. > > All went well until I heard some folk calling it LeeBRAY-office. Ouch! > Please, there is NO accent on the final letter in 'libre'- so no > braying, eh? > > May I suggest that somewhere on their site LibreOffice give suggestions > for pronouncing the product name in English. > > To my ears 'LEEbruh' would be close (Lee as in Bruce Lee or even Robert > E. Lee and 'bruh' like the first syllable of brother in American). > > No doubt a proper linguist could give better instruction. Please do.
It's in the FAQs: http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/faq/general-faq/how-do-you-pronounce-libreoffice/ --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
