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Date:      Thu, 22 Apr 1999 06:02:11 -0700
From:      Darren Pilgrim <dpilgrim@uswest.net>
To:        Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: When speaking about unix...
Message-ID:  <371F1DD3.1B79D67E@uswest.net>
References:  <371F0D00.DA22D070@uswest.net> <371F185F.BBD9DB6E@uk.radan.com>

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Mark Ovens wrote:
> 
> 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 think of it as a slient 'g', but maybe it should be guh-nome, as in
> GNU?

I though, up until I heard someone speak it, that GNU was pronounced
"new".  It makes we wonder why the unix people of lore didn't add a
pronunication info to the man pages.


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