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How not to recognize free hardware

How not to recognize free hardware

Posted Oct 21, 2010 15:46 UTC (Thu) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784)
In reply to: How not to recognize free hardware by paulj
Parent article: How not to recognize free hardware

Established but hardly popular; as far as I know, en_GB speakers who reverse the silencing of k/g before n do so either consciously due to wilful eccentricity or unconsciously due to immersion in a wilfully eccentric subculture.


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OT: gnome pronunciation

Posted Oct 24, 2010 20:49 UTC (Sun) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]

Seems you're right, my pronunciation norms are biased by subculture membership. ;) Straw poll elsewhere is overwhelmingly "nome".

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