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