Z:gnu-www-ja-rms-nyu-2001-transcript--9f178d-But, when it's the name of our/en

But, when it's the name of our system, the correct pronunciation is &ldquo;guh-NEW&rdquo; &mdash; pronounce the hard &ldquo;G&rdquo;. If you talk about the &ldquo;new&rdquo; operating system, you'll get people very confused, because we've been working on it for 17 years now, so it is not new any more. [Laughter] But it still is, and always will be, GNU &mdash; no matter how many people call it Linux by mistake. [Laughter]