I've been an Ubuntu user from the beginning and the pronuciantion of the name never mattered to me untill about a week ago, I heard Europeans calling it U-bun-too, while my friends and I were calling it U-boon-too. And I couldn't stand not knowing after looking up the word on Wikipedia [mind you this post has been changed since my initial quest] I decided to dump The distribution I was using at the time (Fedora Core 5-it was for the HP Learning Center's Linux 101) and install Dapper Drake, and to my surprise there was the answer staring me right in the face. A theora video called Experience Ubuntu, which had of all people Nelson Mandela (a Zulu) discussing what Ubuntu was.

you can see this video for yourself.