How do you pronounce Debian?
Submitted by busfault on Tue 4 Dec 2007
| Either |
   5% | 42 votes |
| Long e |
21% | 168 votes |
| Neither |
1% | 10 votes |
| Have neither heard nor said it. |
2% | 17 votes |
| Short e |
69% | 537 votes |
| Total 774 votes |
I pronounce it german :)
(Interresting should be were the name comes from, helps also about the pronounciation. It's Debra and Ian for the few, who didn't know that yet)
(Interresting should be were the name comes from, helps also about the pronounciation. It's Debra and Ian for the few, who didn't know that yet)
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Posted by Anonymous (217.216.xx.xx) on Wed 5 Dec 2007 at 02:20
The word Debian is quite simple to pronounce in spanish ^_^
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I tend to pronounce it deeply and slow, like a powerful spell. :)
But if I'm surrounded by people of Tux brotherhood, it's always said like the name of an old friend.
Ok, ok.. stop with the gushy stuff. In Italian too, it's quite simple to say but first time I first eared it, I believed it was some kind of astronomical (!) software, since for me it resembled like Deneb!
eNjoy
But if I'm surrounded by people of Tux brotherhood, it's always said like the name of an old friend.
Ok, ok.. stop with the gushy stuff. In Italian too, it's quite simple to say but first time I first eared it, I believed it was some kind of astronomical (!) software, since for me it resembled like Deneb!
eNjoy
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Posted by Anonymous (70.145.xx.xx) on Wed 5 Dec 2007 at 22:36
English phonics rules demand a short 'e'
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I pronounce deb as in Debbie, and ian as in, well Ian. Of course.
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Posted by Anonymous (201.210.xx.xx) on Sun 9 Dec 2007 at 15:46
What's a short e?
what's a long e?
Me too, like "in".
what's a long e?
Me too, like "in".
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Nice poll, but for non English speakers it is completely uncomprehensible. How 'bout using IPA? I pronounce it /'debian/. Is this short e, long e, either, or neithr?
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Deb is just short for Debra. However Ian could be either pronounced:
/Yawn/ or pronounced /E'in/ or /I'an/ -- I myself have heard Ian pronounced all three ways. But I pronounce Debian as /Deb'E'in/ (short E.)
Cheers! -Sx-
http://youve-reached-the.endoftheinternet.org/
/Yawn/ or pronounced /E'in/ or /I'an/ -- I myself have heard Ian pronounced all three ways. But I pronounce Debian as /Deb'E'in/ (short E.)
Cheers! -Sx-
http://youve-reached-the.endoftheinternet.org/
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I spell it phonetical in Hungarian. :)
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