#"Why is it called Fluentd?"
My day (and night) job is to answer questions about Fluentd, and enough people have asked me why it's called that. It is not the easiest to pronounce. It is not mono- or bysyllabic. It's not the end of the world that it is trisyllabic, but you need to inunciate reasonably well to be heard correctly ("Wait, what is it? Flu..what?").
Yes, your guess is as good as anyone else's. It is pronounced as fluent-dee. Like "fluent" with a "d" tacked onto it.
Fluentd is called Fluentd because it wasn't called Fluentd on day one. Its initial name was "Fluent" (hence our repo owner's name), with the intent that this software should make streaming data from sources to sinks more "fluent". Less hassle, more extensibility, more reliability.
However, the author realized (or rather did not realize at first) that if you search for "fluent", you would get bazillion links to Rosetta Stone apps and their siblings. Fluency