3 The name <dfn>"Ardour"</dfn> came from considerations of how to pronounce the
4 acronym <abbr title="Hard Disk Recorder">HDR</abbr>. The most obvious attempt
5 sounds like a vowel-less "harder" and it was then a short step to an
6 unrelated but slightly homophonic word:
10 <dfn>ardour</dfn> <em>n</em> 1: a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in
11 favor of a person or cause); "they were imbued with a revolutionary ardor";
12 "he felt a kind of religious zeal" [syn: ardor, elan, zeal]<br>
13 2: intense feeling of love [syn: ardor]<br>
14 3: feelings of great warmth and intensity; "he spoke with great ardor" [syn:
15 ardor, fervor, fervour, fervency, fire, fervidness]
19 Given the work required to develop Ardour, and the personality of its primary
20 author, the name seemed appropriate even without the vague relationship to
25 Years later, another interpretation of "Ardour" appeared, this time based on
26 listening to non-native English speakers attempt to pronounce the word.
27 Rather than "Ardour", it became "Our DAW", which seemed poetically fitting
28 for a Digital Audio Workstation whose source code and design belongs to a
29 group of collaborators.