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[ravenofdreams.livejournal.com]

 Things that irrationally annoy the bejeezus out of me: people who say "linksee" instead of "linksys".

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[kizayaen.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've ever had that happen, but if I did, I'd be completely with you on that.

[alicephilippa.livejournal.com]

How in heck do they manage to get that pronunciation? I know we mangle things with the pronunciation of acronyms but not quite that badly.

[jamoche]

False plural, like the way cherise (singular) became cherries (plural)?

[gholam.livejournal.com]

"Goggle" instead of "Google". "Boomgar" instead of "Bomgar". Usually the same person.

[asbrand.livejournal.com]

We use a lot of Juniper routers in our ISP backbone.

Care to guess what they get called?

Old guy on the Transport team who sits a few desks over from me will get a call from them for us, and will tell me "I got a call for you from the men from Jupiter..."

*head to desk*

"Send 'em to Uranus!" :P



-Az

[fuego.livejournal.com]

I thought I made this post here a few months back, but apparently I put it over on techcomedy.com instead:

Whatever you do, DON'T pronounce it "link-sis". Maybe this is more of a customer rule, but I can't remember the last time I heard Linksys pronounced correctly. Linksky, Linsky, Linky, Linksy, Syslink, Linkstis, Syslinky, Slinky, Syslinks, Linkis...I've heard them all in the past few weeks. Often hearing multiple variations on the same call.

[c0nsumer.livejournal.com]

My favorite is MacAfee instead of McAfee.

[bekscilla.livejournal.com]

I hear that one constantly. I don't remember the last time it was pronounced McAfee

[c0nsumer.livejournal.com]

I've even heard it from some of their employees.

[bamatone.livejournal.com]

To be honest, I've been in the biz for many years and I'm still not sure what the correct way to say it is. I've always gone MacAfee, emphasis on the first syllable.

I've also come into potential evidence this is correct. Usually you think of anything Mc in front of it as McSomething, like McDonald's. Except for when the next letter after the Mc is a vowel. Example: proper names like Greg McElroy (Alabama quarterback) and Rory McIlroy (golfer), both of which are pronounced MacElroy.

[tanamiya.livejournal.com]

Mozzarella Foxfire.

*takes a bow, exits stage right*

[gholam.livejournal.com]

Couple more - "Perversive SQL" (originally Pervasive), "nestix" (originally "netstick", a local name for USB cellular modems).

[pne.livejournal.com]

John Wells’s Phonetic Blog entry on Mc-/Mac- names (http://phonetic-blog.blogspot.com/2011/06/joe-mc-what.html) has a comment saying that the accent difference could depend on the etymology (http://phonetic-blog.blogspot.com/2011/06/joe-mc-what.html?showComment=1307609759779#c8705941917382478444).

[buckaction.livejournal.com]

"Mc" should be pronounced as "Mick" (thus, the slur/slang). In reality though, people can pronounce their name any way they want to :)