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From: neutron@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Jack Applin)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Re: Pronunciation.  Request for references.
Message-ID: <4840004@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 1 Dec 89 18:37:26 GMT
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Raymond Chen writes:

> Please don't post pronunciations without references.  I doubt
> the original poster cared how YOU pronounced them; he wanted to 
> know what the "correct" pronunciations are.
> 
> Bearing that in mind, here are the "official" pronunciations, with 
> references.
> 
> GNU = guh-new [1]

> [1] "To avoid horrible confusion, please pronounce the `G' in the word `GNU'
> when it is the name of this project.", from the GNU Manifesto, R. Stallman.

It's still ambiguous.  How do we pronounce the `G'?  Is it guh-new or gee-new?
Remember, I don't care how YOU pronounce it; I want to know what the "correct"
pronunciation is.


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