From: kagenin AT usa DOT net (Kagenin) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Two dumb (but vital) questions Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 00:38:32 GMT Message-ID: <36f8334e.14347651@news.jps.net> References: <3 DOT 0 DOT 1 DOT 16 DOT 19990323131822 DOT 27b77a76 AT shadow DOT net> <199903231833 DOT NAA17215 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235 NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.25.61.218 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.25.61.218 X-Trace: 24 Mar 1999 01:13:06 -0800, 208.25.61.218 Lines: 19 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.63.224.240 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ Delorie was feeling all groovy on Tue, 23 Mar 1999 13:33:20 -0500 when they posted : > >> Is GNU pronounced GEE-new or guh-NEW? > >Well, if you can pronounce it with *no* vowel sounds between the >G and the N, I think that would be right (is "sky" suh-ky or see-ky?) > >Failing that answer being helpful, I pronounce it like guh-new, with >"g" as in grapes or goodness, but without the "uh" part. > I always pronounced it "noo", like the animal Gnu is named after. That or "Jee En Yoo" Kagenin "When the Going gets Weird, the Weird turn Pro" -Hunter S. Thompson