the Guh-Nome part i was pretty sure about, though that is helpful. I remember reading about it in some Linux mag. Stallman basically said anything starting with gnu should be GUH-NU-whatever. hard to do though, espcially around casual linux users... they look at you funny, and you feel compelled to explain, and then you end up looking like a bit of jerk.. (at least i seem to...) Oh, and Suse,,, that one is like Dr. Suess, not Suzy.... since we are expanding the list. C On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 10:20:09 -0600 (CST), Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> wrote: > 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/ >