From iOS to SQL: The world's most incorrectly pronounced tech terms:
A lot of people pronounce common tech terms wrong, from iOS to SQL to Qi. It's understandable: Some of the proper or official pronunciations of these terms are counterintuitive at best. Still, we think it's time to clear the air on a few of them.
To that end, we're starting a discussion and inviting you to share your examples with us. Next week, we'll look into a bunch of them and publish a pronunciation guide.
[...] Below are a handful that have come up within the Ars [Technica] staff. Again, dear readers, feel free to discuss and debate, and to introduce some others of your own. For some of these and other terms suggested, we'll follow up with an article making the case for some correct (or, at least official) pronunciations versus incorrect ones, sourced as best as we can.
- [...]iOS and beOS
- [...]OS X and iPhone X
- [...]SQL and MySQL
- [...]Linux
- [...]Qi
- [...]Huawei
(Score: 2) by shortscreen on Monday May 18 2020, @06:07AM (1 child)
My prefered method for solving these mysteries (when available) is to check the kana [wikipedia.org]. Es kyuu eru. Settled.
How about that thing that directs the packets this way and that? Ruutaa [wikipedia.org]
Although sometimes there is a term which is so bad in every possible way that nobody can make sense of it and one has to take matters into one's own hands. I decided long ago that I would refer to this [wikipedia.org] simply as "duh."
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday May 18 2020, @01:22PM
Shortscreen, what you say is the road to madness. It would lead to you pronounce the word, "Makudonarudozu," instead of the proper, the sensible, "Mickey-D's."
Washington DC delenda est.