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Date:      Fri, 19 Sep 2003 08:08:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Viktor Lazlo <viktorlazlo@telus.net>
To:        Massimiliano Stucchi <max@willystudios.com>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Spelling
Message-ID:  <20030919080736.I711@njamn8or.no-ip.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030919164821.2b1d18d1.max@willystudios.com>
References:  <20030919164821.2b1d18d1.max@willystudios.com>

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On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Massimiliano Stucchi wrote:

>
> Hello guys. After spending my last week at BSDCon, I have a silly
> question for you all.
> It took me a while to make people correctly pronunce FreeBSD the way I
> thought it had to be, say (freebeastie) as I had read about. The fact
> is, I live in Italy, and we all have our own way to pronounce foreign
> words and terms. When I arrived at BSDCon I discovered that everybody
> said "Free_B_S_D".
>
> So, what's the correct way to say it ? ;)

Each of the letters in BSD is a distinct syllable: Bee-Ess-Dee.

Cheers,

Viktor



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