On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 12:06:56PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
The English word gnome has the gn as the first part of knee; in the case
of GNOME I pronounce a hard 'g' separated from the 'n', so guh-NOHM (not
proper phonetic alphabet, but it should suffice ...), by analogy with
GNU.
Thanks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Egbert Bouwman) wrote:
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 12:06:56PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
The English word gnome has the gn as the first part of knee; in the case
of GNOME I pronounce a hard 'g' separated from the 'n', so guh-NOHM (not
proper phonetic alphabet, but it should
On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 05:31:19PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
Is gnu pronounced with a y-glide, like news (nyooz)? I always thought
that it was also pronounced guh-noo (without that glide), but I could be
wrong. 'dict gnu' isn't clear.
Chambers gives two pronunciations for gnu (the animal) one
If you read the FSF literature, in particular the emacs manual
you find they (who chose the Gnu as the mascot) want it pronounced
with a distinct GA-Noo (I approximate.) The g is hard, and the
rest is like the animal.
Cheers
David
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Matt Folwell wrote:
On Fri, Jan 28,
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