On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, John T. Hoffoss wrote: > On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 09:20:46 -0600, Chris Smith > <christophermsmith at gmail.com> wrote: >> samba = you say it like you do the dance right? Not SAM-ba Like SOM-ba.. >> cron = like the old cron? or like chronological? > > I pronounce: > > samba, like the dance > > cron like chronological So far, so good. > gnome, like the mythical figure, not genome, like genetics > > gnu, like the animal, not guh-new Not quite (right about genome though). Here's a trick for finding out what people are saying about pronunciation: http://www.google.com/search?q=gnu+pronounced And you can see that everyone says that we should pronounce the hard 'g' in GNU: guh-noo (with a very short 'uh'). Authoritative source: http://www.gnu.org/ The same pronunciation rule should apply to 'gnome': http://www.google.com/search?q=gnome+pronounced Apparently, Stallman advocated for pronouncing the hard 'g' and it has stuck. Mike -- Michael B. Miller, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Division of Epidemiology and Community Health and Institute of Human Genetics University of Minnesota http://taxa.epi.umn.edu/~mbmiller/