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- From: hobbit@ac.dal.ca
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc,alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: New York Times article on BBS's
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.165041.6652@ac.dal.ca>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 16:50:41 -0300
- References: <rdippold.711661229@cancun> <mtpins.711668470@icaen.uiowa.edu> <14kv1kINNg06@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <1992Jul23.184014.14135@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>
- Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- For whatever difference actual use makes, I say 'siss-op', 'moe-dem',
- and 'gif' (hard g. i can't even think of any other way to indicate
- that word should be pronounced with a hard g, other than how it's
- spelt).
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- What I'm curious about, is how do you folks pronounce 'GNU'?
- 'Nu' is proper (for the animal, anyway) but i've never heard anything
- but 'ge-nu' used for the software.
-
- c.r.
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