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Re: How do you say "gnus"?
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Stan Barr |
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Re: How do you say "gnus"? |
Date: |
03 Jan 2005 18:30:09 GMT |
On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 19:51:54 -0700, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> wrote:
>
>David Sumbler <david@aeolia.co.uk> writes:
>> Now for the trivial question: how do you say "Gnus"? Is it pronounced
>> like "News", or do the cognoscienti pronounce it in some other way?
>
>i always pronounced it ga-news ... similarly to having pronounced
>gnosis as ga-nosis ... and later gnu as ga-new (g wasn't silent)
>http://www.gnu.org/
I always pronounce it guh-news - like in the song "I'm a Gnu" :-)
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