Non English speaker here. I still can't fell confortable about it
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Yesterday I was asked to explain what gcov was. I started by saying it was the GNU Coverage Tool and was part of the GNU Compiler Collection.
I know it's pronounced 'nu' but I generally pronounce it 'ga-nu' to avoid misinterpretation that I was saying 'new'.
I feel a bit conflicted as I want to avoid confusion while explaining topics to junior programmers but may be perceived as misinformed by senior developers.
Any advice?
I've always said and heard it as gee-en-yoo but I've also heard it as guh-noo. So how do you pronounce it?
Too scared to ask someone in real life, but I feel like I can’t get off easy by googling it.
ok so i am getting into Linux and i have watched a bunch of videos about different dostro, de, etc. Some of the time they called it Gnome with the G being pronounced. Other times they called it Nome like the things you put in your garden.
Wich is it? or does it not matter?
Since most of my co-workers workers are Apple fan-boys I don't find myself speaking of the Linux world out loud very often. I imagine others may share a similar situation. Because of this it seems likely that our internal pronounciations may vary wildly. So, what pronounciations have you heard that seemed unusual to you? A couple minor examples I can think of are "et-cetera" vs "et-see" for /etc and "ooh-bun-too" vs "ooh-boon-too" for Ubuntu.
Came to think of this recently when I tried explaining what it meant to a friend, do you pronounce it like the Unix thing or as the 3 letters?
In the audiobooks the Smoking GNU is pronounced like the animal but GNU are three letters that have individual meaning in the clacks code, G pass on the message, N no check and U send it back. As long as someone says your name you're not forgotten.
Personally, as /nu/ like the animal and the linux thing. :)