If you read the FSF literature, in particular the emacs manual
you find they (who chose the Gnu as the mascot) want it pronounced
with a distinct GA-Noo (I approximate.) The g is hard, and the
rest is like the animal.
Cheers
David
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Matt Folwell wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 28, 200
On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 05:31:19PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> Is gnu pronounced with a y-glide, like news (nyooz)? I always thought
> that it was also pronounced guh-noo (without that glide), but I could be
> wrong. 'dict gnu' isn't clear.
Chambers gives two pronunciations for gnu (the animal) o
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Egbert Bouwman) wrote:
>On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 12:06:56PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
>> The English word gnome has the gn as the first part of knee; in the case
>> of GNOME I pronounce a hard 'g' separated from the 'n', so guh-NOHM (not
>> proper phonetic alphabet, but it should
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 12:06:56PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
>
> The English word gnome has the gn as the first part of knee; in the case
> of GNOME I pronounce a hard 'g' separated from the 'n', so guh-NOHM (not
> proper phonetic alphabet, but it should suffice ...), by analogy with
> GNU.
>
Th
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