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    [โ€“] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

    We native speakers of German intuitively pronounce an audible "g" followed by an audible "n" when reading "GNOME" and find it weird that the ordinary word "gnome" is pronounced with a silent "g" in English. The cognate in our first language is "Gnom", pronounced with two consonants in the beginning, like the desktop environment.

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    [โ€“] popcornpizza@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 5 days ago (5 children)

    Everyone knows the true pronunciation is รฑom!

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    [โ€“] jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago
    [โ€“] chunes@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    That's the whole gimmick behind GNU projects... You pronounce the G. Because that's how you pronounce GNU.

    [โ€“] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 17 points 4 days ago

    Nah I just say gnu

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    [โ€“] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 4 days ago (8 children)

    Nginx should be pronounced ล‹iล‹ks and rhyme with sphinx

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    [โ€“] jqubed@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    Today Iโ€™m learning this and now I learn GNU is supposed to be pronounced โ€œguh-NEWโ€

    [โ€“] Durandal@lemmy.today 17 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Obviously... since their logo and spelling is the same as the animal... pronounced "noo".

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    [โ€“] rainwall@piefed.social 14 points 5 days ago (5 children)

    Meanwhile GIMP out here going "Yup, you got it right."

    [โ€“] GunnarGrop@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    GIMP is actually pronounced guh-imp

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    [โ€“] Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (4 children)

    It's pronounced gee-nome, right?

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