[ubuntu-uk] What's in a name?

[Dino T.]

Glad to see I've been pronouncing Linux and Ubuntu the right way all along
lol.

*Dino Tassigiannis BA (Hons)*

<http://www.ubuntu.com/>



On 12 June 2011 14:53, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11 June 2011 22:43, alan c <aeclist at candt.waitrose.com> wrote:
> >
> > I gave a recycled Ubuntu PC to someone yesterday, who arrived with a
> black
> > (English born) friend. The friend was interested and had simply not been
> > aware of anything like Ubuntu, only Windows. They had enough African
> > knowledge to know what the ubuntu  philosophy meant. They even knew that
> my
> > anglicised pronunciation was wrong (You buntu) and were a bit
> amused......
>
> AIUI, it's really "úbúntú". The languages isiZulu and isiXhosa are
> tonal: each syllable should be pronounced with a rising tone with the
> emphasis on the middle one. By a rising tone, imagine saying it in a
> questioning manner, or the way a young Australian might say it.
>
> Very roughly, in something like English orthography:
> ooh-BOON-too.
>
> Linux, of course, is lee-nucks or lynn-ucks, *not* line-ucks.
>
> And if you think that's hard, the "xh" in the name part - Xhosa - of
> isiXhosa is pronounced with a lateral tongue click - think of the
> noise used to encourage a horse.
>
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