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Author: Bryce C.
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Subject: KDE menus from Gnome
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 -----
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> 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.
> >
> >
> >
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