On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Tom Achtenberg wrote:
> If I want to be sarcastic I use the hard "G" otherwise I use the soft "G".
> I doubt there is any "official" correct way to pronounce them.
>From http://gnome.org/faqs/users-faq/
Q: GNOME: "nome" or "guh-nome"?
A: In English, the word "gnome" is pronounced with a silent "g". However,
GNOME itself is generally pronounced as "guh-nome", just as GNU is
pronounced "guh-noo" when referring to the GNU Project.