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Re: How do you say "gnus"?
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David Z Maze |
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Re: How do you say "gnus"? |
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Mon, 03 Jan 2005 15:14:34 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (usg-unix-v) |
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 know "correct" pronounciation of GNU is like "gnew" (all one
syllable); I've always pronounced Gnus as "gnews", pronouncing the
"g".
> For that matter, how do people usually say "Emacs"? I say "Ee-macs",
> but perhaps it should be "Em-axe".
"E macs". Kind of like the new Apple release.
> On the very rare occasions when I have managed to get to a local Linux
> user group (my work schedule doesn't usually allow it) I've realized
> that most people seem to say "Line-ux" for what I think of as
> "Linn-ux". I suppose none of it matters much, especially if I never
> get to talk to anyone about these things!
Several years back there was a .au file floating around the same sorts
of places you got your kernel sources: "My name is Leenus Torvalds,
and I pronounce 'Leenux' as Leenux." But everyone I've met around
Boston says "Linnucks".
--dzm