Mispronunciations, typos, et al.

[katyism.livejournal.com]

So how do your favorite users mispronounce, misspell, and mistype things?

My users are university people... faculty and undergrads cannot get their heads around the following words, but the grads, staff, and international students can. It makes you wonder who learned to read before college, vs. who got in to the university for money reasons.

My favorite examples...

Correct: Symantec
Incorrect: systematic, simon tech, schematic, semantic.

Correct: https://exchange.whatever.edu
Incorrect: http://sexchange.whatever.edu

Correct: Ad-aware
Incorrect: Adware

Correct: Microsoft
Incorrect: Microsock (this was a typo)

Comments

[pixeltwist.livejournal.com]

Correct: cable
Incorrect: DSL

Correct: router
Incorrect: rooter

Correct: modem
Incorrect: Coxbox or 'that box you gave me'

I don't even bother correcting callers though. It's not worth my time. Am I also the only one annoyed when customers say 'you', when it wasn't me, but the company. 'Your internet's not working', 'The modem you gave me', etc.

[jecook]

The term "coxbox" sends me off on a wholly NSFW tangent. ::giggles uncontrollably::

[pixeltwist.livejournal.com]

It makes me giggle/die on the inside when I hear it. Too bad it's an ISP specific. :[

[sacredlyprofane.livejournal.com]

I say rooter, but I'm Australian, I'm allowed.

[princess-kessie.livejournal.com]

In Australia (well, many parts, anyway) we say "rooter" for "router" because here we pronounce route "root" not "rowt", and router is just a natural extension of that.

So the 'correct' pronunciation is extremely dependent on your point of origin.

But I do get the gist of "when in Rome..."

[sacredlyprofane.livejournal.com]

Tee hee, you said root.

[redqueenmeg.livejournal.com]

I say "root" for "route" a lot, too, but I say "rowter" for "router," because otherwise it makes me think of Roto-Rooter (http://www.rotorooter.com/), and then I would get the giggles.

[princess-kessie.livejournal.com]

Bwahahaha - I went there, and promptly got the sniggles (somewhere between a snicker and outright giggles) too!

Thanks for the laugh!

[redqueenmeg.livejournal.com]

Heh, no problem. Glad to oblige.

[princess-kessie.livejournal.com]

Hmm. You, unlike most of the world, make me smile. Mind if I befriend you?

[redqueenmeg.livejournal.com]

Sure, no problem. That's a hard standard to live up to, though! ;)

[pixeltwist.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this is how I feel. Root is a street. Router is... uh... a router.

[cyrus7.livejournal.com]

Coxbox... I take it then that you are internet tech support for Cox Communications? ;-) me too, and I have to say that every one of those you've said I've heard as well. Drives me nuts when people say their DSL isn't working. It's cable! Way better than DSL; how dare you insult it! lol. And about people saying "you" when it wasn't me... nope you're not the only one who is annoyed! Drives me nuts, especially when they say "you messed up and..." I've never talked to you before! How did I mess up?! [/rant]

[pixeltwist.livejournal.com]

That is correct... although I'm actually outsourced.

[cyrus7.livejournal.com]

I had a woman today call her DCT a "coxbox" and I had to dive for the mute button so she wouldn't hear me snort with laughter.