Correct Spelling
It happens that people spell the name of this Jabber/XMPP server wrongly. They talk about ejabber, Ejabber, Ejabberd, eJabber, or eJabberd. However, the only right spelling is ejabberd. Thus:
- no capitalization,
- and a "d" at the end.
The name ejabberd stands for Erlang JABBER Daemon:
- Erlang, the programming language that ejabberd is written in.
- Jabber, the "streaming XML protocols and technologies" that ejabberd is using, standardized as XMPP.
- A daemon, which is just a conception.
Pronunciation
How do you pronounce "ejabberd"? Alexey, the author of ejabberd says this about that question:
I pronounce it with a Russian accent, other variants are ok for me
Known Wrong Spelling Examples
The porpuse of the following list is to help people find this page with search engines:
- ejabber, Ejabber, eJabber
- ejabbered
- ejabber
- ejaberd
- e-jabberd
- ejbd
- e-jabbered
Another Russian
Another Russian slang-pronunciation is "yozhick" (it means "hedgehog") :)