How do you pronounce GNU?
guh-NOO/ɡəˈnuː/
Commonly said as: saying "new" or spelling out "gee-en-you"
guh noo
GNU
What it is
GNU is the free-software operating system project. The name is the recursive acronym "GNU's Not Unix".
Why it gets said wrong
Richard Stallman asks specifically that the g be pronounced, giving two syllables, guh-NOO, to distinguish it from the animal, which is said "new".
Hear it in a sentence
The toolchain comes from the GNU project.
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