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