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1 <!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" --> 2 <!-- Parent-Version: 1.96 --> 3 <!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html --> 4 <title>How To Pronounce GNU 5 - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title> 6 <!--#include virtual="/gnu/po/pronunciation.translist" --> 7 <!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" --> 8 <div class="article reduced-width"> 9 <h2>How To Pronounce GNU</h2> 10 11 <p>The name “GNU” is a recursive acronym for “GNU's Not 12 Unix!”; it is pronounced as one syllable with a hard <i>g</i>, like 13 “grew” but with the letter <i>n</i> instead of 14 <i>r</i>.</p> 15 16 <p> 17 This is a recording of <a href="https://www.stallman.org/">Richard Stallman</a> 18 saying “GNU” and another with a short explanation about how GNU 19 was named: 20 </p> 21 22 <p><strong>How to say “GNU”:</strong></p> 23 <audio src="/audio/gnu-pronunciation.ogg" controls="controls"> 24 <a href="/audio/gnu-pronunciation.ogg">How To Say GNU</a> 25 </audio> 26 27 <p><strong>How GNU Was Named:</strong></p> 28 <audio src="/audio/how-gnu-was-named.ogg" controls="controls"> 29 <a href="/audio/how-gnu-was-named.ogg">How GNU Was Named</a> 30 </audio> 31 32 <p>The combination of <a href="/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html">GNU and 33 Linux</a> is the <strong>GNU/Linux operating system</strong>, now used 34 by millions and sometimes incorrectly called simply 35 “Linux.”</p> 36 <p>For more detailed information and history of the GNU 37 Operating System visit 38 <a href="/gnu/">gnu.org/gnu/</a></p> 39 40 <div class="infobox" role="complementary"> 41 <hr /> 42 <h3 id="license">License Of The Recordings</h3> 43 44 <p>Copyright © 2001 Richard Stallman</p> 45 46 <p>These recordings are licensed under a <a rel="license" 47 href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/">Creative 48 Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License</a>.</p> 49 </div> 50 </div> 51 52 </div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above --> 53 <!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" --> 54 <div id="footer" role="contentinfo"> 55 <div class="unprintable"> 56 57 <p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to 58 <a href="mailto:gnu@gnu.org"><gnu@gnu.org></a>. 59 There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a> 60 the FSF. Broken links and other corrections or suggestions can be sent 61 to <a href="mailto:webmasters@gnu.org"><webmasters@gnu.org></a>.</p> 62 63 <p><!-- TRANSLATORS: Ignore the original text in this paragraph, 64 replace it with the translation of these two: 65 66 We work hard and do our best to provide accurate, good quality 67 translations. However, we are not exempt from imperfection. 68 Please send your comments and general suggestions in this regard 69 to <a href="mailto:web-translators@gnu.org"> 70 <web-translators@gnu.org></a>.</p> 71 72 <p>For information on coordinating and contributing translations of 73 our web pages, see <a 74 href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations 75 README</a>. --> 76 Please see the <a 77 href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations 78 README</a> for information on coordinating and contributing translations 79 of this article.</p> 80 </div> 81 82 <!-- Regarding copyright, in general, standalone pages (as opposed to 83 files generated as part of manuals) on the GNU web server should 84 be under CC BY-ND 4.0. Please do NOT change or remove this 85 without talking with the webmasters or licensing team first. 86 Please make sure the copyright date is consistent with the 87 document. For web pages, it is ok to list just the latest year the 88 document was modified, or published. 89 90 If you wish to list earlier years, that is ok too. 91 Either "2001, 2002, 2003" or "2001-2003" are ok for specifying 92 years, as long as each year in the range is in fact a copyrightable 93 year, i.e., a year in which the document was published (including 94 being publicly visible on the web or in a revision control system). 95 96 There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers 97 Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. --> 98 99 <p>Copyright © 2010, 2011, 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p> 100 101 <p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license" 102 href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/">Creative 103 Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.</p> 104 105 <!--#include virtual="/server/bottom-notes.html" --> 106 107 <p class="unprintable">Updated: 108 <!-- timestamp start --> 109 $Date: 2021/11/02 14:27:03 $ 110 <!-- timestamp end --> 111 </p> 112 </div> 113 </div><!-- for class="inner", starts in the banner include --> 114 </body> 115 </html>