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Re: How do you say "gnus"?
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David Hanak |
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Re: How do you say "gnus"? |
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Fri, 31 Dec 2004 11:00:30 -0600 |
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Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) |
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, David Sumbler wrote:
> I've just started using Gnus - it's great, although I've only
> scratched the surface yet.
Welcome! I hope you'll soon find it as indispensable as we do.
> 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?
It is pronounced like news indeed, the G is silent.
> For that matter, how do people usually say "Emacs"? I say "Ee-macs",
> but perhaps it should be "Em-axe".
AFAIK, ee-max is the appropriate pronounciation. Just for the record,
us Hungarian users often read it phonetically (Hungarian is a phonetical
language) and pronounce it something like eh-much.
> 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!
Again, linn-ooks is the "official", original pronounciation, but English
speakers often say it as line-ux, which is also accepted. (Perhaps
linn-ooks has a slightly snobbish tinge to it, as in the case of "vase"
- vuh-ze vs. vay-ze.)
Happy new year to all of you out there!
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