Pronouncing GNU (was Re: New York Times article on BBS's)

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From: Jay Pfaffman
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 02:40

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hobbit@ac.dal.ca writes:

>What I'm curious about, is how do you folks pronounce 'GNU'?  
>'Nu' is proper (for the animal, anyway) but i've never heard anything 
>but 'ge-nu' used for the software.

Some official GNU doc that I read suggested that the G be pronounced,
"to avoid horrible confusion."  I've always said GNU (one syllable),
although Gee New could work too.

-- 
Jay Pfaffman, Computer Coordinator        pfaffman@pilot.njin.net
Dwight-Englewood School, 315 E. Palisade Ave.                      
Englewood, NJ  07631-0489                 201-569-9500

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From: pfaffman@pilot.njin.net (Jay Pfaffman)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Pronouncing GNU (was Re: New York Times article on BBS's)
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