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minus-squareHawke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 hours agoWhich one’s the hard g? If that’s the one that sounds like j or “g as in giraffe”, then I’ve never heard anyone pronounce it like that. Jnome? Doesn’t really roll off the tongue very well.
minus-squaretal@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 hours agoI suspect that @[email protected] really meant to say “with a non-silent ‘G’”. The word is typically pronounced (“There are gnomes in the forest!”) with a silent ‘g’.
minus-squareHawke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 hours agoI think as a GNU project, Gnome is an exception. That might be a bit of a hypercorrection though.
Which one’s the hard g? If that’s the one that sounds like j or “g as in giraffe”, then I’ve never heard anyone pronounce it like that. Jnome? Doesn’t really roll off the tongue very well.
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I suspect that @[email protected] really meant to say “with a non-silent ‘G’”.
The word is typically pronounced (“There are gnomes in the forest!”) with a silent ‘g’.
I think as a GNU project, Gnome is an exception. That might be a bit of a hypercorrection though.