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