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- From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
- Subject: Re: Pronouncing GNU (was Re: New York Times article on BBS's)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.164602.1458@geovision.gvc.com>
- Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
- Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
- 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> <Jul.24.22.40.29.1992.17740@pilot.njin.net>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 16:46:02 GMT
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- pfaffman@pilot.njin.net (Jay Pfaffman) writes:
-
- >hobbit@ac.dal.ca writes:
-
- >>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.
-
- >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.
-
- I've always pronounced it the same way Flanders and Swan pronounce it in the
- song "I'm a GNU", on thier album "At the Drop of a Hat".
-
- I'm a G-Nu,
- a g-nother G-Nu.
-
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