From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,efcb8823d186b06d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewarr@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: Ada 95 for SCO? Date: 1998/09/13 Message-ID: <6tgmef$7tp$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 390680569 References: <35F07349.EE7@mitre.org> <1fVLj9G29GA.166@samson.airnet.net> <6sutco$jiu$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <6tcnk7$5ce@priv-sys04-le0.telusplanet.net> <6tdh5m$30n$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <87ogslaxmd.fsf@yakisoba.forte-intl.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x13.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 209.73.133.253 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Sun Sep 13 14:56:14 1998 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/2.02 (OS/2; I) Date: 1998-09-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <87ogslaxmd.fsf@yakisoba.forte-intl.com>, Ronald Cole wrote: > dewar@gnat.com writes: > > The pronounciation incidentally sounds the G, but quickly > > in passing, in the same way that most people pronounce > > Gnostic. It is not "NAT" and it is not "GEE-NAT". > > The "g" is not pronounced in "gnostic". > But then again, I'm not "most > people" and, apparently, neither was Noah Webster. > Well of course Noah Webster has provided little more than the name on the cover for most modern dictionaries with his name (unless you really do have a copy of the original :-). I guess pronounciation varies on gnostic. Perhaps I should have said that the G is sounded as in GNU. I have not heard people referring to the "Noo" system, and I am sure that Mr. Webster did not have an opinion on how to pronounce the name of this project (although he may have had an opinion on how to pronounce the name of the animal -- certainly Flanders and Swan are sure that the G is not silent in GNU :-) P.S. my wife, a former history major who studied the relevant period, said she has never heard gnostic pronounced with a silent G, perhaps they do things differently at the University of Chicago :-) -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/rg_mkgrp.xp Create Your Own Free Member Forum