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Article: No gnus is good gnus.
- Article from:
- Word Ways
- Article date:
- February 1, 2002
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2002 Jeremiah Farrell. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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A gnu is a large, stocky antelope whose seeming ambition is to be a cow. Distinctive for its bizarre rocking-horse running motion, this oddly-formed even-toed ungulate has been described as being made up of parts left over from other animals, an assessment that is probably unfair to other animals. But although their droll appearance may endear gnus (or "gnu", either pluralization is correct) to the public at large, few palindromists are ever charmed to find a gnu noshing nonchalantly in their word gardens; indeed, their more usual reaction to such a discovery is to, well, have a gnu.
The problem is that whenever a gnu chances to materialize in a palindrome (which ...
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Article: OSDL/GNU BAYNONNE OFFER LARGE-SCALE DEVELOPMENT/TESTING.
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...The GNU Bayonne project and the Open Source Development ... data center and telco-class enhancements for the GNU/Linux system, are now offering large-scale development and testing for GNU Bayonne through OSDL. The availability of these ...
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