Well, when I had Richard M. Stallman staying at my house, I called it "nome"
and just "linux" without the GNU/ in front of it without feeling stupid at
all.
I know how it supposed to sound, and I choose to say it another way.
Guh-nome sound to me like a car that is just about out of gas and is jerking
a sputtering a lot, but thats not how gnome runs.  It's smooth like "nome"
sounds.
But thats just my personal opinion,  I have never corrected anyone on how
they pronounce things.  If they are new to the scene, I might let them know
that their is a defined way to say it, but I don't like to get in peoples
faces and tell them they are wrong.

Brian Cluff

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lynn David Newton" <lynn.newton@cox.net>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: KDE menus from Gnome


>
>   Brian> Personally I prefer to pronounce it the wrong
>   Brian> way, with a silent g, cause guh-nome sound
>   Brian> guh-stupid to me.
>
> I guess it's a question of who a person want to feel
> stupid around.
>
> When Richard M. Stallman wrote the GNU Manifesto in
> 1985 (see <http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html> for a
> copy), he explained in the very first sentence the
> meaning of the word "GNU", namely a recursive acronym
> meaning "Gnu's Not Unix". The first section ends with
> the statement: "To avoid horrible confusion, please
> pronounce the 'G' in the word 'GNU' when it is the name
> of this project."
>
> Over time many software projects have come out of the
> GNU project, many of them named with a starting letter
> 'G', such as Gnumeric, which clearly is not intended to
> be pronounced the same as "numeric".
>
> Gnome is part of the GNU project. Therefore, to
> pronounce it as if it referred to a subterranean dwarf
> rather than to associate it with the GNU project is to
> manafest an unawareness of all things GNU, the Free
> Software Foundation, and the roots of the open source
> movement, which would seem to be an extremely unhip
> thing to do in a Linux environment.
>
> There's no law against appearing stupid. As I said,
> it's just a question of whose standard you respect the
> most.
>
> --
> Lynn David Newton
> Phoenix, AZ
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