Ubuntu on Veronica Mars

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 03:21:12PM -0700, Rich Rudnick wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 07:46:47 +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 11:02:55AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> >> On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 09:59:05AM -0700, Paul Jones wrote:
> >> >    Just thought that you should know that Ubuntu was mentioned on last
> >> > night's episode of Veronica Mars (ep 118 - Weapons of Class
> >> > Destruction). They even talk about it for a little bit:
> >> 
> >> If only they could learn to pronounce it. ;-)
> > 
> > How did they slaughter it?  It can't be any worse than Robert Collins'
> > infuriating ewuh-bun-too.
> 
> Um, how is it pronounced, then? (I sympathize with Mr. Collins; I've not
> slaughtered it in public yet :)

Somebody posted a phonetic version earlier, but an approximate English
rendering would be "oo-boon-too"; as far as I can make out, all three
vowels are identical.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]