[Lazarus] What is aarre?

Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk
Tue Sep 4 11:40:53 CEST 2012


Juha Manninen wrote:

> A unique name for such thing is difficult to find - using English
> language - and Mattias suggested using another language like Finnish.
> A word "aarrearkku" (treasure box) popped to mind and it was shortened
> to "aarre".
> This is the same tactics Ubuntu uses BTW, and I like it.
> I only wonder how people will pronounce it. Here 'R' pronounces like
> in Spanish (caRamba) and 'RR' is double as strong.
> The name can be changed if people don't like it.

English has no problem with that, in fact it explains Long John Silver's 
"Aarre, Jim lad" :-)

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