[PLUG] GNU hats make good advertising!

Paul Johnson baloo at ursine.ca
Thu Dec 11 19:24:02 UTC 2003


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On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:19:01PM -0800, Kyle Accardi wrote:
> What I'd like to see is a technical pronunciation key.  My webster's says 
> to pronounce the animal (using chars I can't type here) "new".  I always 
> pronounce the software project as "gnew".  Where does RMS put the clicks 
> and what do they sound like?

"Hello, my name is Richard Stallman, and I prounounce GNU, GNU."

> A long time ago I said "line-ux" just because I preferred the long vowel. 
> But when I met other users face-to-face I adopted the correct form "lin-ux".

I recall Linus Torvalds opinion is that it's "LEE-nooks" but then when
he started travelling stateside people were correcting *his*
pronunciation and he just went with it.  If you look at the history of
Linux, Linus's actions say he doesn't care that it even has a name,
much less how you say it.  Linus didn't even bother naming it, the FTP
site he used originally did because the ftpmaster felt it needed a
name.

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