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From: laura@hoptoad.uucp (Laura Creighton)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,misc.misc
Subject: Re: smail pronounciation
Message-ID: <1909@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Thu, 19-Mar-87 14:32:48 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 19 14:32:48 1987
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In article <517@cod.UUCP> rupp@cod.nosc.mil.UUCP (William L. Rupp) writes:
>
>>Everybody I've met seems to pronounce the "G" in Gnu.  Is this just
>
>A gnu is an actual animal.  The g in gnu is not pronounced, so why
>should the G in Gnu be pronounced?

This should have been posted by hoptoad!gnu, but what the hell...
The g is pronounced.  It is a aspirated click.  Of course, only speakers
of certain African languages will be able to get it down right. 


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Laura Creighton		Master of Chaos and Possibility
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