Re: Pronunciation of GNOME

[Matthew Kirkwood <weejock ferret lmh ox ac uk>]

On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Miguel de Icaza wrote:

> > An interesting and somewhat amusing question is how is GNOME pronounced?
> > Is it pronounced as the word 'gnome' (i.e. nome) or is it pronounced with
> > the G in the spirit of the GNU project (as g'nome)?
>
> It depends on who pronounces it.
>
> If you are a Corel representative, it is "ge-nome", most people use
> "g-nome".

Really?  I abandoned my "genome" pronunciation shortly after the 0.13
(wasn't it?) release having foiund myself outvoted by people claiming
"nome".

Have we just found another 1000 words for the Linux-pronunciation-HOWTO?
:)

Matthew.