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- From: avg@rodan.UU.NET (Vadim Antonov)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc
- Subject: Re: Pronouncing GNU (was Re: New York Times article on BBS's)
- Date: 25 Jul 1992 16:51:12 -0400
- Organization: Berkeley Software Design
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- References: <1992Jul23.184014.14135@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> <1992Jul24.165041.6652@ac.dal.ca> <Jul.24.22.40.29.1992.17740@pilot.njin.net>
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- In article <Jul.24.22.40.29.1992.17740@pilot.njin.net> pfaffman@pilot.njin.net (Jay Pfaffman) writes:
- >Some official GNU doc that I read suggested that the G be pronounced,
- >"to avoid horrible confusion." I've always said GNU (one syllable),
- >although Gee New could work too.
-
- In Russian "gnu" (as gg-n-oo) is a verb meaning "{i} fold/curve/twist"
- and the common derivative is "gnutaya programma" -- a {GNU} programm
- which is not "straight". How applicable to GNU! :-)
-
- --vadim
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