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Re: New York Times article on BBS's

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From: Lupe Christoph
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 09:50
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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.

From the introduction to the GNU Emacs Manual, Sixth Edition, Version
18, March 1987, by RMS himself:

	You are about to read about GNU Emacs, the GNU incarnation
	of the advanced, self-documentin, customizable, extensible
	real-time display editor Emacs. (The `G' in `GNU' is not silent.)
					 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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From: lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph)
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Subject: Re: New York Times article on BBS's
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Date: 25 Jul 92 09:50:39 GMT
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