"Um-buntu?"

[Waffles McCoy]

Has anyone else heard Ubuntu pronounced this way? I have, from two different people who'd never spoken to one another. Weird. I'm an absolute n00b to the great wide world of Linux-- there's not an actual derivative with this name out there, is there?

[RabbitWho]

oohm-boon-too sounds silly.

[beef'n'cheese]

its sounds like they were guessing.

ummmmmmmmm, buntu?

[USB_NL]

:KSI have a youtube account called ahmbuntu:KS

[Old Marcus]

My dad calls it that, it's wierd.

[pricetech]

Om Boon Too.

Sounds like a chant.

[schauerlich]

/b/ and /m/ are both labial sounds, so it makes sense for there to be some epenthesis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epenthesis) there.

[blur xc]

/b/ and /m/ are both labial sounds, so it makes sense for there to be some epenthesis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epenthesis) there.


^^^^^^nerd

[schauerlich]

^^^^^^nerd

I prefer the term "geek." :)

[CharmyBee]

No, I use Winders Xpay.

[Marlonsm]

Ive never seen like this, but here it's commom to see people saying "U-bun-TOO" because it looks like a native (south)american word, and most of these words are pronunced like that.

[schauerlich]

Ive never seen like this, but here it's commom to see people saying "U-bun-TOO" because it looks like a native (south)american word, and most of these words are pronunced like that.

The correct pronunciation is /u:bu:ntu:/, or "oo-boon-too"

[SuperSonic4]

The correct pronunciation is /u:bu:ntu:/, or "oo-boon-too"

Indeed but that sounds silly, I pronounce it as oo-bun-two

[doas777]

yeah, I've called it oom-buun-tuu from time to time. you wanna make somthing of it?
;)

[schauerlich]

Indeed but that sounds silly, I pronounce it as oo-bun-two

It's not any sillier sounding than any English word. Try saying the word "word" slowly a bunch of times until it stops meaning anything, and just listen to the sounds you make. Makes you realize just how arbitrary language is.

[USB_NL]

oew boen to

[USB_NL]

oew boen to
thats how it sounds in Dutch I guess :mrgreen:

[Waffles McCoy]

/b/ and /m/ are both labial sounds, so it makes sense for there to be some epenthesis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epenthesis) there.

Very interesting-- thanks for the link! :)

[Guitar John]

Oooooooommmm-buntu. Linux for yogis. 8-[

[USB_NL]

Oooooooommmm-buntu. Linux for yogis. 8-[

Ohmbuntu

a mantra of software for the upcomming sun

O:)

[TheNessus]

I hear a lot "You-buntu" pronunciation. grr.

[USB_NL]

omg that might become popular or is that sooo first decade

like YOU was time magazine person of the year

[proxess]

Oooooh-boooooooo!n-two

[forrestcupp]

Maybe it's because Mark Shuttleworth says "umm" about a thousand times every time he speaks.

[dragos240]

I am dragos240 and I pronounce ubuntu as oo-boon-too.

[mechro]

I say Lie-nux Yoo-buntu so I'm probably wrong on both counts. :-|

[Old_Grey_Wolf]

I have heard um-boon-too, un-boon-too, um-bun-too, and un-bun-too.

People mispronounce sudo, SUSE, Mandriva, etc. all the time. As long as I understand what they mean it is OK with me.

Some of the difference are the common sounds used in a particular language or a dialect of a given language. For example, ask someone from the UK and someone from the US to pronounce schedule.

:)

[schauerlich]

People mispronounce sudo, SUSE, Mandriva, etc. all the time. As long as I understand what they mean it is OK with me.

Correct: /suːduː/ "soo-doo," although I admit I usually say /suːdoʊ/ "soo-doh"
Correct original German: /zuːzə/ "zoo-zuh," usual English pronunciation: /suːsə/ "soo-suh"
I usually say /mændraɪːvə/ "man-dry-vuh," although I imagine some people say it /mændriːvə/ "man-dree-vuh". I'm not sure which is technically correct.


Some of the difference are the common sounds used in a particular language or a dialect of a given language. For example, ask someone from the UK and someone from the US to pronounce schedule.

The phones exist in both dialects, and neither is especially marked; it's just a specific case where one is used over the other.

[adeypoop]

lol yeh i've heard people saying Umbuntu before aswell, usually people who don't really know exactly what it is.

[mechro]

For example, ask someone from the UK ..... to pronounce schedule.
:)

tom - ah - toe :)

[xuCGC002]

I pronounce it "ooo-boon-too", but most average people I know refer to it as "You-bun-too" or "oo-bun-too".

[thatguruguy]

I referred to it as "Unbuntu" in this thread, based upon what my dad calls it: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1371929
(http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1371929)