RE: a question of pronunciation

["Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>]

Well, before we get into all out name wars I would like to point out "Who
cares what it is called as long as it works" :)

PS, I pronounce gnome 
nome after the little people (American pronunciation)


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	bratsche@dfw.net [SMTP:bratsche@dfw.net]
> Sent:	Wednesday, March 17, 1999 11:04 AM
> To:	Jon Earle
> Subject:	Re: a question of pronunciation
> 
> 
> Supposedly it's Guh-NohME, but I refuse to pronounce it that way. GNU is
> pronounced Guh-NEW, and it's not a new thing. It's always been that way.
> I've never quite understood why GNOME (or anything else) should have a
> mangled pronunciation (which is more difficult to pronounce than the
> correct pronunciation of the word) just to pay tribute to another word,
> and especially when the word given tribute is part of the acronym. I'll
> continue to pronounce GNOME as NohME (iow, the original and correct
> pronunciation of the word =) so long as the project exists, and I'll
> continue to pronounce GNU as Guh-NEW (iow, the original and correct
> pronunciation of the word =), and I'll not make a freak hybrid word that's
> spelled correctly but pronouned incorrectly.
> 
> =)
> 
> Cody
> 
> 
> On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Jon Earle wrote:
> 
> > We're having a debate here concerning the pronunciation of GNOME... is
> it
> > pronounced  NohME, or 
> > G-NohME (or Guh-NohME),  as if to emphasize the GNUness aspect?
> > 
> > Cheers!
> > Jon
> > 
> > 
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