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 <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11 June 2011 22:43, alan c <aecl...@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. > > -- > Liam Proven • Info & profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/lproven > Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com > Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 > AIM/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
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