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- From: esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc,alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: Pronouncing GNU (was Re: New York Times article on BBS's)
- Message-ID: <1hFXx0#7vwXbd0QlKOv2lrf5S6bkC9X=esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
- Date: 26 Jul 92 14:58:56 GMT
- 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>
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- In <Jul.24.22.40.29.1992.17740@pilot.njin.net> Jay Pfaffman wrote:
- > 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.
-
- The correct pronunciation (as heard from RMS's own lips) is monosyllabic,
- but with a pronounced hard G; much as if one said "eggnog" withot the
- initial /e/.
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- Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
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