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for Something’s Not UNIX. And I tried letters, and I came across the
word “GNU.” That was it.
Although a fan of puns, Stallman recommends that software users
pronounce the “g” at the beginning of the acronym (i.e., “gah-new”).
Not only does this avoid confusion with the word “gnu,” the name
of the African antelope, Connochaetes gnou, it also avoids confusion
with the adjective “new.” “We’ve been working on it for 17 years
now, so it is not exactly new any more,” Stallman says.
Source: author notes and online transcript of “Free Software: Freedom and
Cooperation,” Richard Stallman’s May 29, 2001, speech at New York University,
http://www.gnu.org/events/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt.