Re: How to pronounce Gnome

["Michael H. Warfield" <mhw wittsend com>]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 01:02:22AM -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> >  A simple question suddenly came out of my mind.
> >  How to pronounce "Gnome" ?

> Guh-nome, similar to the way you pronounce GNU.

> Ah, if only English were a phonetic language :-)

	The English language is the natural result of Anglo invaders
trying to make dates with Saxon bar girls.  The result is a language
that gives us sentences which can be spoken but can not be written...
(There are three ways to spell the word {two|too|to}?!?!?!?!?)  What
do you expect???

>   Federico


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