http://urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2007/03/16/the_hackers_almanac_for_friday_1/ Thu, 19 Jun 2014 09:26:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2007/03/16/the_hackers_almanac_for_friday_1/#comment-262 Sat, 17 Mar 2007 01:10:25 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2007/03/16/the_hackers_almanac_for_friday_1/#comment-262 You may be right about Goddard; I’ve never actually heard that name spoken outside of the director. I was trying not to make it totally French, but I guess failed somewhat.
As far as GNU goes, I know that the joke seems like it should hinge on the ‘g’ being silent, but that’s definitely not the actual practice. Even Richard Stallman himself pronounces it and I’ve never heard any developer do otherwise.

]]> http://urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2007/03/16/the_hackers_almanac_for_friday_1/#comment-261 Fri, 16 Mar 2007 23:45:09 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2007/03/16/the_hackers_almanac_for_friday_1/#comment-261 Great as usual, but two pronunciation points:
(1) I always thought Goddard is pronounced Godd-ard, like a good old Amur-ican, not like the French New Wave.
(2) I know that in gnu the “g” is silent. That’s part of the recursive joke in the GNU acronym…
Keep ’em coming!

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