{"id":468,"date":"2007-08-06T19:48:49","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T19:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/2007\/ubuntu-704-fiesty-or-feisty-which-is-it\/"},"modified":"2013-08-26T18:17:01","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T23:17:01","slug":"ubuntu-704-fiesty-or-feisty-which-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/ubuntu-704-fiesty-or-feisty-which-is-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu 7.04: Fiesty or Feisty, Which is it?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ubuntu is a great Linux distro and all, but couldn’t they have chosen a better code-name for the latest version!? As everyone knows, geeks and nerds are the worlds biggest obsessive-compulsive, nit-picking grammar-Nazis, and <\/em>they’re also the ones (at the moment) most likely to be using Linux. So, why on Earth is Ubuntu 7.04 called Feisty Fawn and not Fiesty Fawn?\n<\/p>\n

Out of all the Fxxxxx<\/em> Fxxxxx<\/em> names Mark Shuttleworth’s Canonical Ltd. could have picked for their all-the-rage Linux distribution, it had<\/em> to be the (only?) one that breaks the infamous i-before-e rule, didn’t it?\n<\/p>\n

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‘I’ before ‘E’, except after ‘C’, or when sounding like ‘A’, as in “neighbor” or “weigh.”\n <\/p>\n

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Everyone who speaks English was made to memorize that as a child (well, if you’re British you would’ve memorized it “neighbour” instead, but that’s not the point ;), yet here we are: grown coders using software built on exceptions to grammatical laws!\n<\/p>\n

Let’s take a quick look at some of the other names Ubuntu could’ve used:\n<\/p>\n