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  1. Xref: sparky comp.bbs.misc:318 alt.folklore.computers:11107
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!sun-barr!rutgers!dziuxsolim.rutgers.edu!pilot.njin.net!pfaffman
  3. From: pfaffman@pilot.njin.net (Jay Pfaffman)
  4. Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc,alt.folklore.computers
  5. Subject: Pronouncing GNU (was Re: New York Times article on BBS's)
  6. Message-ID: <Jul.24.22.40.29.1992.17740@pilot.njin.net>
  7. Date: 25 Jul 92 02:40:29 GMT
  8. References: <rdippold.711661229@cancun> <mtpins.711668470@icaen.uiowa.edu> <14kv1kINNg06@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <1992Jul23.184014.14135@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> <1992Jul24.165041.6652@ac.dal.ca>
  9. Followup-To: comp.bbs.misc
  10. Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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  13. hobbit@ac.dal.ca writes:
  14.  
  15. >What I'm curious about, is how do you folks pronounce 'GNU'?  
  16. >'Nu' is proper (for the animal, anyway) but i've never heard anything 
  17. >but 'ge-nu' used for the software.
  18.  
  19. Some official GNU doc that I read suggested that the G be pronounced,
  20. "to avoid horrible confusion."  I've always said GNU (one syllable),
  21. although Gee New could work too.
  22.  
  23. -- 
  24. Jay Pfaffman, Computer Coordinator        pfaffman@pilot.njin.net
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