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minus-square@Hawke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink4•9 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-square@tal@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglish3•8 hours agoI suspect that @TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works 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-square@Hawke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•7 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 @TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works 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.