Every day I get a comment asking me why I pronounce "GNOME" with a hard G.

It's because when I first learned about it, over one century ago, it was an acronym for "GNU Network Object Model Environment". And the GNU project pronounces GNU with a hard G.

Pronouncing GNOME with a hard G was useful as a way to distinguish the project from the mythical creature, and I was not alone in pronouncing it that way.

Over time the acronym fell away but my pronunciation stuck.

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