From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 22 9:53: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lab.cba.ualr.edu (lab.cba.ualr.edu [144.167.120.221]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CC15159D7 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 09:52:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@lab.cba.ualr.edu) Received: from team7.cba.ualr.edu (team7.cba.ualr.edu [144.167.120.24]) by lab.cba.ualr.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA00563; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 11:51:17 -0500 Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 11:48:31 -0500 (CDT) From: joe X-Sender: joe@team7.cba.ualr.edu To: Darren Pilgrim Cc: Andrew Perry , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: When speaking about unix... In-Reply-To: <371F1CE9.4E51CC77@uswest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > Andrew Perry wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > >> How do you one pronouce various programs and parts of unix? I'm > >> always getting into little debates about the correct pronunication of > >> commands/programs. One example would be gnome--silent g or gee-nome? > > > > I thought it was guh-nome > > Ah, but can you say that in public without sounding silly? I think > not. Then again, most people dismiss unix folk as insane anyway so > maybe it doesn't matter. :-) > In some Middle Eastern countries, the "guh-nome" pronunciation is a derogatory word and not to be spoken in public. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message