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> >In British English the "g" is totally unnecessary.
>
> I cannot recall ever hearing any British speaker pronounce
> the name of the animal without sounding the "g".
>
This is because of the popularity of Flanders and Swann: "I'm a g-noo,
spelt g-n-u, the g-nicest work of g-nature in the zoo..."
http://www.xylodom.com/gnu.html
Michael Kay
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