https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=300184 Summary: Preferred spelling of gnu is "WildeBeest" Product: openSUSE.org Version: unspecified Platform: Other URL: http://www.wikipedia.org/gnu OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Enhancement Priority: P5 - None Component: bugzilla AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: lverhaegen@novell.com QAContact: novbugzilla-bugs@forge.provo.novell.com CC: mhopf@novell.com, aschnell@novell.com, mfabian@novell.com, sndirsch@novell.com, lverhaegen@novell.com Found By: Development While gnu is also an accepted spelling, the preferred spelling of wildebeest is wildebeest, not gnu. In as far as wikipedia is any proof, you will see that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/gnu refers directly to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wildebeest. Here it is said that the word Gnu was only popularised in 1956 by Michael Flanders and Donald Swann and is therefor to be considered slang. As a more substantive argument there is the renowned anthropologist David Attenborough who presents all of the higher class BBC nature films who always talks about Wildebeest instead of Gnus. I will now go on a quest to prove that each time he mentions wildebeest in a documentary, of which there have been a few, he uses the word wildebeest and explicitely not gnu. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.