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| From | Ethan A Merritt <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> |
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| Subject | Re: How to pronouce gnuplot? |
| Date | Thu, 09 Jan 2014 10:30:04 -0800 |
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hnourse@gmail.com wrote:
> On Wednesday, 4 March 1998 18:00:00 UTC+10, Yong Huang wrote:
>> Do you pronounce gnuplot as gnoo-plot or gee-en-you-plot? Thanks for a
>> reply.
>>
>> Yong
>
> http://www.gnu.org/pronunciation/pronunciation.html
But gnuplot has no connection with gnu.org or the FSF GNU project,
so the pronunciation of "GNU" is not relevant.
From the gnuplot FAQ:
I wanted to call it "llamaplot" and Colin wanted to call it "nplot".
We agreed that "newplot" was acceptable but, we then discovered
that there was an absolutely ghastly pascal program of that name
that the Computer Science Dept occasionally used. I decided that
"gnuplot" would make a nice pun and after a fashion Colin agreed.
- Thomas Williams
So it seems that at least the original intent was that it be
pronounced "newplot".
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Re: How to pronouce gnuplot? hnourse@gmail.com - 2014-01-08 20:51 -0800 Re: How to pronouce gnuplot? Ethan A Merritt <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> - 2014-01-09 10:30 -0800
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