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There are big things happening with gnomes (startrek.website)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Not a native speaker so I might not get the pronunciation 100% but.. is the gnome an animal?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

There's also D&D gnomes which are similar to the alchemy gnomes, but they lean into steampunk/ primitive industry way harder.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There's an animal called a gnu, pronounced "noo".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

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.