I personally pronounce it with a hard G even when talking about the mythical creature because that’s how it’s pronounced in most other languages that have a similar word. Anglos can go fuck themselves with their needlessly complicated phonetics.
Yohohoho!
I’m not a KDE, I’m not XFCE, I’m not LTQt, I’m not a Hyprland, I’m not a Cinnamon, I’m a Guh-Nome! And you have been Guh-Nomed!
borks your Linux
I’m not a gnoblin.
I’m not a gnelf.
I’m a gnome. And you’ve been…
Gnooooommmmmmed!!!
Back when video games had more imagination than pixels, there was a mech simulator game called G-Nome. Which was the name of the enemy, pronounced “Genome.”
Our DNA guh nome.
I was wondering just now if that was what the devs were going for, originally? I had never thought about it.
I guess I missed the joke, because I always assumed there was no ambiguity on the pronunciation… Are there people saying “G nome”, really ? I bet they calls GIF files Jiff, too!
🤣 now I have “Jnomee” in my head and will never be able to un-hear that
Yes there are those who insist that the GNOME desktop environment is pronounced “guh-nome” because of GNU.
See, all open source software projects must have complete diaper fire names. Bonus points if you put more thought into the name than the software, like HURD.
Oh, it’s not “gee new”?
Or WINE 🥰
WINE is true, it Is Not Emulation.
The one I hate is LAME, which definitly IS an MP3 Encoder.
If you add an “e” after the “G” then all of a sudden it’s Science!
I thought it was either gnome (as in garden gnome) or genome (as in genetics).
What the fuck is a guhnome
Wouldn’t you like to guhnome
Guhnome is for people that can’t make the back of the throat an nasal ng sound when saying ngnome
You’ve blinded me!
Its pronounced GIF
No it’s not
The Jraphics Interchange Format.
SCUBA - self-contained oonderwater breathing apparatus
Laser - light ay-mplification by ztimulated emission (good luck pronouncing the e) of radiation
ASAP - Ay-s Soon As Possible
TUBA - Terrible Underwater Breathing Apparatus
Praise Jod for your comment. I’d jive you a jift but i don’t know where you live
Just dont send me a giant giraffe. I’d take some gin though, or I could even use some ginger. Im sure you get the gist
I see your argument and discount it entirely.
oonderwater
It’s eunderwater
This only makes sense to me because my aunt worked on guh-noo.
It would seem gnome is the correct pronunciation. GNU naming conventions are a pipe dream.
Linux/opensource naming can be the wildest stuff.
lol
