Pronouncing "ubuntu"

Billy Verreynne (JW) VerreyB at telkom.co.za
Thu Mar 2 08:50:06 UTC 2006


Alan McKinnon wrote:

> oo-BOON-too is as close as most Western tongues get.
> A Xhosa speaker might disagree, but that's a whole
> other thread for another time...

Suffice to say that if you add an "eish" (pronounced "eeessshhh") in
somewhere it will do just fine even for Xhosa speakers..

E.g. "eish Windows? Ubuntu!"


--
Billy


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