-
+
<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:
+ 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>
+
+<blockquote><p>
+ <dfn>ardour</dfn> <em>n</em> 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.
+ 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.
+ 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>
-