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[Gary W. Swearingen]

Massimiliano Stucchi <max at willystudios.com> writes:
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> thought it had to be, say (freebeastie) as I had read about. The fact
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> So, what's the correct way to say it ? ;)

Even if it was supposed to be "freebeastie", most Americans would
unconsciously "round" the "t" so it would be more like "free beese
dee" (accent on "beese"), but AFAIK, everyone says "FreeBSD" with four
syllables: "free be ese dee" (accent on "dee", but not much), even
when they say it real fast.

I'm guessing that "BSD" led some BSD pioneer to think "beastie" which
he connected with processes already called daemons, and he thought it
would make for a good mascot.