Pronouncing "ubuntu"

R Kimber rkimber at ntlworld.com
Thu Mar 2 13:29:33 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 01:36:31 +0200
Alan McKinnon <alan at linuxholdings.co.za> wrote:

> How many people in the world-wide Ubuntu community can pronounce the 
> name correctly? (Tip: there's no "Y" sound in it)

Surely there's no "correct" way.  It depends on the language
conventions of the speaker's language.  In English we wouldn't say that
we were off to "Paree" for the weekend, we would use the anglicised
version.

- Richard.
-- 
Richard Kimber
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/




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