on Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:30:58PM +0100, Rüdiger Kuhlmann insinuated: > >--[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 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 often run into people who pronounce it deeb e un. A short > > explanation of where the name comes from fixes that for most of > > them. > > That leaves the question how to pronounce "DEHB", "ee", "un", "deeb" > and "e". Guess what we have an international agreed upon phonetical > alphabet for.
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