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From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms

posted by Fnord666 on Monday May 18 2020, @01:32AM   Printer-friendly
from the just-like-it-sounds dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:

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

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 18 2020, @08:01PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 18 2020, @08:01PM (#995985)

    whoever said "chinese chars" are picto grams originally is talking shit.
    no one making up pictograms with a mediocre sense of logic would not consider a "magical fire embodied into life" pictogram to not have a circle in the middle.
    maybe, just maybe, it's just phony and the pictogram creator knew it all along and the REAL pictogram revolves around ... $