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There are big things happening with gnomes(startrek.website)

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jawa21@startrek.website
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GNOME has forever ruined how I want to pronounce “gnome.”

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pacoboyd@lemm.ee
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What?! They are said differently?

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wander1236@sh.itjust.works
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Guh-nome for the software. It’s a play on how GNU is guh-noo, which is a play on the pronunciation of the animal called gnu to differentiate it. This is what happens when you let software developers name things. I would know, being a software developer.

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onion@feddit.de
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I never even noticed, because it’s g-nome and g-noo in german xD Also took me a while to notice the K in Mortal Kombat

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