I thought it was foot for a long time.
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The G isn't silent but there is definitively no vowel between G and N.
So baffling so many of you cannot pronounce Gn with a non-silent G (or Kn with a non-silent K). Both Gnome and GNU are pronounced almost like the equivalent German words:
Ok buddy for that I'm naming my next distro Squirrel
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I pronounce it nom just to annoy everyone :3
it's pronounced david
What's the story behind /etc/ as /etsy/?
I always saw it as "et cetera", so the "et" came naturally to me
I always read it as "et-c" to get that pronunciation
This only makes sense to me because my aunt worked on guh-noo.
Yeah, well, you're going to have to take that up with the Colonel.
I call it Ubuntu.
I have absolutely no idea how "Linux" is supposed to be pronounced. True story.
Hereโs a helpful mnemonic: โJet Li got eczema from radiation poisoningโ
Li - as in Jet Li
nu - as in nuculer radiation
x - as in eczema
Li-nu-x
edit: spacing
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