[libreoffice-users] Re: Pronunciation of LibreOffice in English

On Thu, 05 May 2011 09:33:31 -0700, George Rodier <gwgr@shaw.ca>
wrote, perhaps among other things:

> Caveat, I am new to the LibreOffice users list. Please do let me know
> where I should direct my suggestion.
>
> As a Canadian I recently attended LinuxFest Northwest in Bellingham, WA.
> It was a great event and LibreOffice was well represented there.
>
> All went well until I heard some folk calling it LeeBRAY-office. Ouch!
> Please, there is NO accent on the final letter in 'libre'- so no
> braying, eh?

While there is no accent on the "e" in Libre, we're all familiar with
the delightful beverage called a "Cuba Libre", which is indeed
pronounced "LEE-bray", or at least close enough for non
hispanohablantes, and which lacks the accent (I'd describe it as a
"short long 'e' sound)..  It is indeed how "Libre" would be pronounced
by my Tucsonan citymates.

> May I suggest that somewhere on their site LibreOffice give suggestions
> for pronouncing the product name in English.
>
> To my ears 'LEEbruh' would be close (Lee as in Bruce Lee or even Robert
> E. Lee and 'bruh' like the first syllable of brother in American).

LEEbruh is a constellation, although I'm sure many more folks who
follow the insanity of astrology use it than do astronomers.

> No doubt a proper linguist could give better instruction. Please do.

I had 6 or 7 linguistics classes, but that was about 40 years ago. I'm
sure the language has moved on since then.
> Georges
-- 
"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."
                                 -- Ed Abbey


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