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minus-square@SkippingRelaxlinkEnglish4•1 year agoNot a native speaker so I might not get the pronunciation 100% but… is the gnome an animal?
minus-squarejan telilinkEnglish5•edit-21 year agoI’m not quite sure what you’re meaning, but I don’t know of any animal gnomes. The three gnomes I can think of are: Gnome, a mythical creature from renaissance alchemy garden gnome, a sort a garden ornament GNOME, a unix desktop environment
minus-square@AngryCommieKenderlinkEnglish1•1 year agoThere’s also D&D gnomes which are similar to the alchemy gnomes, but they lean into steampunk/ primitive industry way harder.
minus-squarewander1236linkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agoThere’s an animal called a gnu, pronounced “noo”.
minus-square@AngryCommieKenderlinkEnglish1•1 year agoThe Muppets disagree. https://youtu.be/cGVdCGxh1IY?si=TVZRAWjRxedgn7WA
minus-squarewander1236linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoI’m not gonna say it’s wrong to call the animal a guh-noo, since there is a G there after all, but pretty much every source lists “noo” and “nyoo” as the two pronunciations.
Not a native speaker so I might not get the pronunciation 100% but… is the gnome an animal?
I’m not quite sure what you’re meaning, but I don’t know of any animal gnomes. The three gnomes I can think of are:
Gnome, a mythical creature from renaissance alchemy
garden gnome, a sort a garden ornament
GNOME, a unix desktop environment
There’s also D&D gnomes which are similar to the alchemy gnomes, but they lean into steampunk/ primitive industry way harder.
There’s an animal called a gnu, pronounced “noo”.
The Muppets disagree.
https://youtu.be/cGVdCGxh1IY?si=TVZRAWjRxedgn7WA
I’m not gonna say it’s wrong to call the animal a guh-noo, since there is a G there after all, but pretty much every source lists “noo” and “nyoo” as the two pronunciations.