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- From: consp03@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Kriston J. Rehberg)
- Subject: Re: New York Times article on BBS's
- In-Reply-To: lupe@ukw.uucp's message of 25 Jul 92 09: 50:39 GMT
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- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 21:06:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul25.095039.15225@ukw.uucp> lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph) 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.
- >
- >From the introduction to the GNU Emacs Manual, Sixth Edition, Version
- >18, March 1987, by RMS himself:
- >
- > You are about to read about GNU Emacs, the GNU incarnation
- > of the advanced, self-documentin, customizable, extensible
- > real-time display editor Emacs. (The `G' in `GNU' is not silent.)
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- But "GNUS", the Emacs NNTP newsreader, must be pronounced "news" - ie,
- the G is silent in this case.
-
- Weird!
-
- >| ...!unido!ukw!lupe (German EUNet, "bang") | Disclaimer: |
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- Kris
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