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Dan Emory wrote:
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> That's what I'd do (i.e., take my pick). The only thing I'd add is,
> once you've chosen the pronunciation you prefer, warn all
> Linux snobs in advance of any conversation with them that if they
> sneer, giggle, or make faces about your pronunciation,
> they're liable to get punched in the nose.
Personally, I wait to hear how they pronounce it :-)
Anyway, the REAL snobs are the ones who insist that GNOME should
be pronounced "guh-nome-eh".
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Bruce Byfield, Outlaw Communications
Contributing Editor, Maximum Linux
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"I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root.
It is what you fear.
I do not fear it: I have been there."
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