Non English speaker here. I still can't fell confortable about it

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.

How do you pronounce gnome

I never really thought about the question of how to pronounce Linux properly since my friends, who have been using different distros for decades, have always said it with a soft “i”. However, this is contrary to (most) grammatically correct English. So when I was in microcenter yesterday and I heard someone say “I’m really trying to use L-eye-nix” instead of windows, I had a moment of questioning my own, what I thought was common, knowledge. I looked up the question online, and on Reddit (maybe the mispronunciation of it on this platform is more of an inside joke since Linux so heavily regarded here) and there is a massive debate over its pronunciation. I have always thought that to truly know a pronunciation, we should look to it’s source. So I found this short clip from the man himself. Enjoy.

https://youtu.be/5IfHm6R5le0

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?