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Bud Rogers <budr@tanet.net> writes:

> I know, it's silly.  But when I want to tell someone about gnus, I
> stumble over the name because I'm not sure how it should be
> pronounced.  It usually comes out approximately like the English
> word 'noose'.

I pronounce it gnooze (as `nooze', but with a `g' in front; g as in
`gun'.)

I have heard an American pronnounce it as `news', but it's incorrect;
that's how Masanobu Umeda envisioned the pronounciation of the
original GNUS.

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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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