On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, tboy wrote: > I'm not a native english speaker so i don't know how to pronouce > "Debian" --- it seems somewhat strange to me. When i introduce Debian > to my friends i have to spell it out letter by letter. Any help from > native english speakers?
The name comes from two peoples names: Debbie (Debra?) and Ian. So, "Deb" rhymes with "web" and "ian" rhymes with the first two words of "we in the Linux community", or, the ending of words like indian, endian, canadian, etc. Sorry, I don't recall the proper dictionary syntax for pronunciation! ...RickM...
