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Re: How do you say "gnus"?
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Stein Arild Strømme |
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Re: How do you say "gnus"? |
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Mon, 03 Jan 2005 11:42:31 +0100 |
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[Romain Francoise]
| David Hanak <dhanakDONT@isisSEND.vanderbiltME.eduSPAM> writes:
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| >> Now for the trivial question: how do you say "Gnus"? Is it pronounced
| >> like "News", or do the cognoscienti pronounce it in some other way?
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| > It is pronounced like news indeed, the G is silent.
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| Lars says "Gnoos" with a hard G and a short S.
As would any Gnorwegian. We gnow gnothing about silent g's up here,
gneither in gnu, gnome, gnor agnything else.
SA
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