Bryce's pronunciations are all correct from what I've heard from 
"official" sources.  The most common mispronunciations I hear are for 
Gnome and SuSE.
~M


Bryce C wrote:

>Actually, SuSE being German (Software und system entwiclung (sp?)), it's
>pronounced Sue-Suh.
>As for the others: Deb-ian, kuh-nop-ix, My S.Q.L., a cross between
>Jen-two and Gen-two (slurring the two sounds together because I haven't
>decided which yet), Guh-nome, oooh-bun-two, Sig-win, Apropos (look it up
>in the dictionary :-P), and Me pis.
>The "kuh"-nop-ix and "Guh"-nome are the same sounds as in "Guh"-new
>(GNU) - officially documented pronunciation.
>Anyways, I try and stick to the "official" and "prefered" pronunciations
>as much as possible, but I may still be incorrect on a few.
>
>-Bryce
>
>On Sun, 2005-27-03 at 14:56 -0600, Jerry Davis wrote:
>  
>
>>On Sunday 27 March 2005 02:34 pm, Jared Anderson wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Happy Easter All,
>>>
>>>Almost all of my Linux interactions takes place digitally; hence, the pronunciations of common *nix words may not be accurate in my mind.  This theory is often reinforced by the differing pronunciations I encounter when verbally discussing Linux.  I am curious how ya'll pronounce these *Lenn Nicks* related words:
>>>
>>>Debian:  
>>>=======
>>>D.B.E.N.?  
>>>Deb E. N.?    x
>>>
>>>Suse:
>>>===== 
>>>Sue Say?  
>>>Suess?  
>>>Susy?     x
>>>
>>>Knoppix:
>>>======== 
>>>Nopp X?      x
>>>Knopp X?
>>>
>>>MySQL: 
>>>======
>>>my sequel?
>>>my S.Q.L.?     x
>>>
>>>Gentoo:
>>>=======
>>>jen two?       x
>>>
>>>Windows:
>>>========
>>>win blows?     x
>>>win doze?
>>>;)
>>>
>>>Gnome:
>>>======
>>>Nome?     x
>>>
>>>Ubuntu:
>>>=======
>>>You Bunt You?
>>>You Bunt too?
>>>uh bunt you?
>>>uh bunt too?
>>>You boon too?
>>>uh boon too?       x
>>>
>>>Cygwin:
>>>=======
>>>Sigh Jwin?
>>>Sigh Gwenn?
>>>Sig win              x
>>>      
>>>
>>>apropos:
>>>========
>>>A propose?
>>>App pro poss?
>>>App propose       x
>>>      
>>>
>>>Mepis:
>>>======
>>>Me piss?        x
>>>Meh piss?
>>>Me piece?
>>>Meh piece?
>>>
>>>.... More to come, I'm sure....
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