Re: a question of pronunciation

[beakur earthlink net]

did you watch a lot of children's programming in the early '80s?
if so you might be thinking gary "no g-news is good g-news" gnu from the great space coaster. that's where i (mis)learned to pronounce it guh-new.
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On Wed, 17 Mar 1999 22:50:50 -0500 (EST), bratsche@dfw.net wrote:
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> My dictionary's pronunciation differs from the way I've always heard it,
> and I hate to venture so far as to claim that my dictionary is wrong.. but
> I swear I've always thought the correct pronunciation of Gnu (like the
> animal) was Guh-New.
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> On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Spud wrote:
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>>     I dont know about anyone else, but I say GNU as gee-en-u, spelling the
>> letters out...
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