Am I crazy for pronouncing things as I was tought in english? Gnome with a soft G and GNU seperately G N U and linux with a short I lin-ux. Just wondering. On 04 Apr 2002 14:22:29 -0700, Brian Cluff wrote: > Personally I prefer to pronounce it the wrong way, with a silent g, cause > guh-nome sound guh-stupid to me. Course I like lye-nuks better too, cause > it sounds tougher than the whimpy sounding lin-uks, or the european > lee-nooks. > > Brian Cluff > (My wife's family pronounces it Bree-an Cloof. I don't argue with them, > thats equally fine by me... I sounds a little exotic now. hehehe) > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: ; > > Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 9:55 AM > Subject: Re: KDE menus from Gnome > > > > An additional question regarding Gnome: > > > > Is it true that Gnome is pronounced with a hard rather > > than silent G, as is true of Gnu, and all of the > > g-prefixed software coming from the Free Software > > Foundation? I've always pronounced the G, but have > > also heard it spoken with a silent G, though mostly > > by persons who are not familiar with it. > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________ > > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't > post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Bryce C. Network Administrator CoBryce Communications Bryce @ BrycecCo . Net