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GNU

guh-NOO

/ɡəˈnuː/

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GNU

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Officially pronounced with a hard ‘g’ — ‘guh-noo’.

Dictionary meaning

A free operating system project (‘GNU's Not Unix’).

Common mispronunciations

NOOG-N-U

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