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  • Hawke@lemmy.world
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    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’.

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        I think as a GNU project, Gnome is an exception. That might be a bit of a hypercorrection though.

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          I think as a GNU project, Gnome is an exception.

          Gnome isn’t a GNU project any longer. They removed references to GNU from their website when Stallman was brought back as GNU leader after speaking in favor of pedophilia.

          In typical Gnome fashion they didn’t merely renounce GNU and Stallman, they lied and claimed that Gnome has never ever been a GNU project.