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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> I think it's a phonetic pun.

If you dredge very old versions of GNUS (e.g. 2.x), you will find
Masanobu Umeda's comments on pronunciation in the info files.
Roughly, "nooss," as I recall.