How do you pronounce Ubuntu

[daxLeet]

I was reading an article and I was just wondering. Maybe some of us pronounce it differently.

Heres how I say it:
oo bunt oo



'oo' as in kangaroo




edit: rats. I just found an old topic about it. Oh well, post anyways :x

[featherking]

i thought it was

ubuntu
(you boon too)

?

[bruceliz]

For a video in which the word 'ubuntu' is spoken several times:

totem /usr/share/example-content/Experience\ ubuntu.ogg

[DoctorMO]

I pronounce it urh-bun-too

[~LoKe]

Oo boon too.

[GStubbs43]

I used to pronounce it You-Boon-Too but I read somewhere on the Ubuntu site that it is pronounced ooo-boon-too.

[balaram]

I love the OS but the name is a bit too esoteric.

[SunnyRabbiera]

You- bun- too! :mrgreen:

[slimdog360]

like bruceliz says, its in the example content where nelson mandela says it a number of times.

[bobbybobington]

ooo-boon-too

sounds sexier?

[DoctorMO]

Nelson Mandela, now theres a fella we can trust. and he says it u-bun-too not oo-bun-too

[Hmarroqu]

g-nome or like the travelocity nome?:confused:

[SunnyRabbiera]

the only reason why I call it "you bun too" is that its you, bun rymes with fun and too...
In short: you will have fun too!:-D

[linuxuser28]

What about Xubuntu? Is it pronounced ex-ubuntu or zoo-buntu?

[DoctorMO]

funny that I'd pronounce it like sku-bun-too

[Erich K]

I pronounce it as you-bun-two.

[DarkN00b]

I've always pronounced it like ooboontoo, with accent on the "boon" part.

[coder_]

I call it oo-boon-too, koo-boon-too, and zoo-boon-too.

When I'm lazy, and talking fast, I call it Uh-bun-too for ease and speed :P

[BOBSONATOR]

im going to oo-boon-too in everyones face.

[v8YKxgHe]

I've always said You-boon-to, yet others I talk to say oo-boon-to and I say Linux as Li-Nex yet others say Le-Nux

[mips]

People the correct pronounciation is more like u-boon-too.

Where some people say oo-boon-too the oo is actually a much shorter sound than the last two syllables.

[DoctorMO]

I've always said You-boon-to, yet others I talk to say oo-boon-to and I say Linux as Li-Nex yet others say Le-Nux

It's Lie-nux, either you don't know how to string two vowls together or you've never heard torvalds telling everyone how it's pronounced.

[Reshin]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux#Pronunciation

[v8YKxgHe]

It's Lie-nux, either you don't know how to string two vowls together or you've never heard torvalds telling everyone how it's pronounced.

or people say things differently from different places? :rolleyes: we don't all speak the same.

[mips]

or people say things differently from different places? :rolleyes: we don't all speak the same.

Yes we speak differently but I think we should at least try and pronounce names right. If you introduced yourself to me I would try my utmost to pronounce your name right.

[ThrobbingBrain66]

It's Lie-nux, either you don't know how to string two vowls together or you've never heard torvalds telling everyone how it's pronounced.

Whoa, why so bitter? It's just a name. If I was a prick too, I'd tell you that you clearly aren't good at capitalization or spelling, but I'm not. So please just relax...

[DoctorMO]

No need to sware ThrobbingBrain66, the inability to put two vowls together is a nasty ailment; much like my own inabillity to use English (even if it's my first language).

Instead I'll speak in really bad Thai.

[ThrobbingBrain66]

No need to sware ThrobbingBrain66, the inability to put two vowls together is a nasty ailment; much like my own inabillity to use English (even if it's my first language).

Instead I'll speak in really bad Thai.

*swear and *vowel

I'll assume your post was a joke.

[[h2o]]

Like it is spelled.

[Ben Sprinkle]

I call it ubu, but pronouncing it would be: u-bun-two.
Ubu it!

[greggh]

I pronounce it oo-bun-two. I hear alot of people pronouncing it oo-boon-two, but its too hard for me to get that boon sound in the middle when I say it fast. Although it does sound more African with boon in the middle instead of bun (as in Hamburger bun).

[ComplexNumber]

the correct pronounciation is meant to be oo-bun-too. i still continue to pronounce it you-bun-too. habit, i guess.

[MedivhX]

I call it oo-boon-too and sometimes you-bun-too

[greggh]

I call it oo-boon-too and sometimes you-bun-too

Why not you-boon-too?

[ericesque]

I've always pronounced it oo-bun-too. To me, trying to say oo-boon-too makes it sound like you're trying to hard. oo-bun-too americanizes the word (if it's said differently to begin with) and makes it less intimidating imho.