{"id":44,"date":"2022-11-19T17:08:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T01:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejal.com\/blog\/?p=44"},"modified":"2022-11-19T17:19:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T01:19:45","slug":"how-do-i-pronounce-dejal-and-where-did-the-name-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejal.com\/blog\/how-do-i-pronounce-dejal-and-where-did-the-name-come-from\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I pronounce “Dejal”, and where did the name come from?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The name \u201cDejal\u201d is pronouced \u201cDEE-JILL\u201d. It is not a French word, so should not be pronounced as \u201cDAY-ZHAL\u201d or other variations.<\/p>\n

The name originated from the former initials of the founder of the company, David Sinclair \u2014 me. I used to be David J. Lambert, but my wife and I both changed our surnames to \u201cSinclair\u201d when we got married, being people who like to make our own conventions (and we chose that name in part after my first computer, the Sinclair ZX81<\/a>). Anyway, back around 1983 I needed a password, so an obvious (if simplistic) choice was something based on my initials. D.J.L. with some vowels to make it pronounceable gave \u201cDeJaL\u201d, and thus \u201cDejal\u201d was created.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, it turns out that \u201cdejal\u201d is a word in some other languages. \u201cDejal\u201d is a Slovene verb, the past participle of the verb \u201creci\u201d, meaning \u201cto say, tell.\u201d An example: \u201cHe told her that she was beautiful\u201d = \u201cOn ji je dejal, da je lepa.\u201d (\u201cje dejal\u201d = \u201ctold\u201d). Kinda appropriate for a software publisher! It appears that \u201cDejal\u201d is also a Yugoslavian or Czech name equivalent to \u201cDavid\u201d, which is also rather fitting. If you have any other examples, or corrections, please let me know.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"