It seems to be important for free software to have a name that cannot be authoritatively pronounced in English. Debian is not a bad name for this but it does qualify. Gnu, Gnome, Linux and SuSE are positively heroic in the impossibility of consensus on how to pronounce them.
Naturally, the poor saps at KDE didn't get it right. Any fool can say KDE :-() Patrick Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you find a stone.
