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Re: How to pronouce gnuplot?

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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

#2248 — Re: How to pronouce gnuplot?

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

YOU'RE WELCOME M8!

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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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