Have you heard about GNOME or GNU ? You might , if you are a person who browses Linux world regularly or using Linux for a while.
I am not telling you about “What is GNOME or GNU ? ” rather a interesting stuff,how they can be pronounced. At first I pronounced them as “Gee-Nome” or “Gee-N-U”.
After reading “the-da-vinci-code” , I came to know about the “GNOME”, i mean what is it’s historical significance and most importantly how it should be pronounced. According to that
book , it is pronounced like “NOME” and that “G” is ignored. Using this formula, I derived “GNU” as simply “NU” and quite confident about this derivation.
But only a few days ago I was browsing Bangla Wiki , and I found a word pronounced as “GO-NU” project. I was shocked. What is this ! If this were any arbitrary bangla site , I wouldn’t be that much bothered. But it’s Bangla Version of WikiPedia , besides I know that the person behind this project is tremendously brilliant. How could I ignore him !
So my search begins and with a very little effort I have found the informations from internet.
“GNOME” is pronounced as “guh-NOME” and “GNU” is “guh-NEW”. Interesting is, I have found some other correct pronunciations that have haunted me for many days. Besides I came to know about ( actually in details) about Open Source and Free Source naming game.
You can read about the correct pronunciation from HERE.
I hope Bangla Wiki heads will give a quick glance to this and take the proper step !!
So it was an interesting morning for me , in search of two correct pronunciations ! See ya all later. Take care and Bye!!
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looks like we were wrong all along.. but we felt good and confident about ‘NU’.. ignorance is bliss you know
yeah … but actually its not a big deal what u pronounce it. Do u know about GNOME / GNU ? Its matter 1000 times than what u pronounce it …
Banik bhai..”Gnome” is a fictional creature and it is indeed pronounced “nome”. If you have had Biology in your HSC/SSC syllabus that a lot of Latin words follow the same rule, like the algae “Gnutella” is pronounced “Nutella”. On this account, you can download the southpark episode “Gnomes” and watch it, its loadsa fun.
As for the GNU project…I myself have adopted a different approach. Considering that GNU is probably an abbreviation of a collection of words, I call this “G.N.U”.
) which I find utterly ridiculous.
Just like “G.U.I” which is sometimes pronounced “GUI” (like that reptilian Gui-Sapp
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GNU doesn’t imply the wildbeast “Gnu”. It’s a recursive acronym “GNU’s Not Unix”. So, i think it should be pronounced as “gee-en-eeu”.
And GNOME definitely doesn’t imply the guard of underground treasure “Gnome”. It’s GNU Network Object Model Environment. So, i think it should be pronounced “gee-nome”.