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GNOME has forever ruined how I want to pronounce "gnome."
What?! They are said differently?
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.
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
Mortal Ombat!
N- noo not like that!!!
Not a native speaker so I might not get the pronunciation 100% but.. is the gnome an animal?
I'm not quite sure what you're meaning, but I don't know of any animal gnomes. The three gnomes I can think of are:
Gnome, a mythical creature from renaissance alchemy
garden gnome, a sort a garden ornament
GNOME, a unix desktop environment
There's also D&D gnomes which are similar to the alchemy gnomes, but they lean into steampunk/ primitive industry way harder.
There's an animal called a gnu, pronounced "noo".
The Muppets disagree.
https://youtu.be/cGVdCGxh1IY?si=TVZRAWjRxedgn7WA
I'm not gonna say it's wrong to call the animal a guh-noo, since there is a G there after all, but pretty much every source lists "noo" and "nyoo" as the two pronunciations.
Wait, the animal isn't pronounced Guh-new? THE MUPPETS ARE LIARS AND THIEVES!!!!!!
https://youtu.be/cGVdCGxh1IY?si=TVZRAWjRxedgn7WA
I want to say it as "Ñome"