🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <Jul.24.22.40.29.1992.17740@pilot.njin.net>, pfaffman@pilot.njin.net (Jay Pfaffman) writes:
>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.

people who don't know how to pronounce gnu obviously need to
listen to flanders & swan (a 1950s-ish uk "review" song duo)
singing their "gnu song" where the chorus is

"i'm a Gnu, i'm a Gnu
 the Gnicest work of Gnature in the zoo.
 i'm a Gnu, spelt G-N-U,
 call me <??> or okapi and i'll sue
 nor am i in the least, 
 like that awful hartybeast, 
 oh Gno, Gno, Gno, i'm a Gnu"

where the G's indicate a pronounced G. i've forgotten
what animal the <??> is and i think i've also missed out
a couple of lines ... but you get the general idea.


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