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Learn something new every day: I had no idea it was "id" as in "bid".
Regarding another tech term: now outdated anyway but at least over here most people pronounced "SCSI" as "Ska-zee". How does that hold in international waters? Last edited by grond; 04 January 2021 at 18:55. |
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I've never heard anyone ever pronounce them as a word, they're always just spelled out S N K, and N E C.
One of the weirder mispronunciations I've commonly heard is people somehow pronouncing "Genesis" as "Megadrive." |
04 January 2021, 18:13 | #24 |
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NEC as neck (either in French or English). SNK as detached letters.
SCSI when I was young was (French) detached letters. Later heard it in English as Ska-zee, so I stick with that. Although I find it weird that the "rival" technology at the time, IDE is pronounced as detached letters. |
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I always pronounce NEC & SNK as their individual letters, same for IDE! SCSI, I have always known it (and heard it pronounced) as SKUZEE!
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As for SCART, I always called it as such, "scart". It would've taken too long to name it by letter. In any case, I never liked that standard anyway, those connectors were ridiculously HUGE compared to HDMI (also pronounced by letter) and they were notoriously weak and unreliable. Ever tried using a multi-SCART connector? Forget it, they were NIGHTMARES! |
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^ I've heard SCSI being pronounced as sexy, which it clearly isn't with all that talk of terminations!
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What about games that are in beta?
I have always pronounced it "bee-tah" but I know many people say "bay-tah." |
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Tumayta / Tumarta, Dayta / Darta, Zee / Zed
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To Germans its funny how English speakers pronounce the unit "Hz"
MHz like "mehga-hurts" The unit is named after Heinrich Hertz - pronounced "herrts" the "e" like in "error". |
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Mad that both I hadn't seen this thread when I mentioned this on another thread, and that I was not alone in thinking this. If you use capitals it makes you think it should be two separate letters.
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How is Infogrames pronounced? Never could work that one out.
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ID would be like bID. if there were full stops (I.D.) then i would pronounce it EYE-DEE
Sega I always pronounced Say-Ga Inforgrammes.. InfoGRAMs But hey, that's just me oh and Psygnosis .. same as Psycho, Psychologist etc (and how it was pronounced in Blood Money) |
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In French, since the company originated from here, we say something like IN (as in pINt, at least that's the closest sounding English word I can think of) FO GRAM (we don't pronounce the ending S, the A sounds more like pAst than the A in the English pronounciation of grAm)
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