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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,ffd9867424acf610 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!news.enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Pronunciation Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 09:39:11 +0200 Organization: PVV Message-ID: References: <87r7ew3iu8.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <87d5qg3gom.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1119339571 70072 212.85.156.195 (21 Jun 2005 07:39:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 07:39:31 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: In-reply-to: Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11519 Date: 2005-06-21T09:39:11+02:00 On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 04:28:35PM -0500, Larry Kilgallen wrote: > In article <87d5qg3gom.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>, Florian Weimer writes: > > > Thanks. What about "GNAT"? Like the fly? > > The pronunciations I have heard for GNAT are not like the insect. > For the insect, the G is silent, whereas the pronunciations I have > heard for GNAT emphasize the G as non-silent (with the rest the same). Yes I'm pretty sure Robert Deward say Gnat with G in one of the lectures here: http://www.gnat.com/aa_lectures.php Don't have time to find it again now, but later this evening... -- Preben Randhol -------------- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/Ada95 -- �For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.�