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

[eddiddiums.livejournal.com]

Correct: Novell Login
Incorrect: Norvell Logan

[chaobell]

Correct: Pentium
Incorrect: Pendulum, Penitum

Correct: RAM
Incorrect: Rams, Megarams

Correct: Hewlett-Packard
Incorrect: Hewart Packard, Hewlett Packer, Hewlett Packard Bell

Correct: Modem
Incorrect: Modulum, Motor

[devilkitty0.livejournal.com]

correct:prometheus
incorrect: proteus;promtus,

prometheus is an online supplement to classes.

The supporting the blasted thing is another post.
I wince every time I hear because I was a classics major.

DK

[mystii.livejournal.com]

I really like it when they say, "It just says connecting through wang miniport" ...haha, wang.

[akage.livejournal.com]

Ouch. Sexchange.whatever.edu made nearly made me spew Mountain Dew out my nose. Good show.

[thecolorblue.livejournal.com]

my company is called netopia, but our endusers call us:

utopia (thanks, but it's not that nice)
neto-PEEEE-ya (no, the accent is on the second syllable)
newtopia

how is it that hard to pronounce?

[toxico.livejournal.com]

Correct: Software Repository
Incorrect: Software Suppository, Software Depository, Software Penitentiary

Correct: McAfee (MACK-a-fee)
Incorrect: MacAfee, McFee, (ma-KAFF-ee), (MACK-a-fay)

Correct: ePolicy Orchestrator
Incorrect: (EE-poe), Policy Orchestra, Primary Orchestration

Correct: Protection Pilot
Incorrect: Pilot Protect (where the hell all these people get that one, I'll never know)

Correct: Lotus Domino
Incorrect: Locust Dominion (from a Domino admin...)

Correct: "Yes, here's what I need help with..."
Incorrect: "Do you have any black technicians there? I'd feel more comfortable speaking with one if so." (^%@$#%^*&#$)

[kizayaen.livejournal.com]

My most common one is when I ask the client to do something to their cable/DSL modem and am asked, "Is that the blue link system box?" Lame, I know.

However, just yesterday I had a district manager call me up and ask, "Can you tell me if my laptop shipped today?"
What I heard was, "Can you tell me if my laptop shit today?"
"Uh.... I dunno. What happened?"

Once I figured out that I'd heard wrong, I declined to let her know exactly what I thought I'd heard.

[redqueenmeg.livejournal.com]

Naturally, LJ just ate my whole comment.

I would see/hear

Inspirion or Inspiration instead of Inspiron
Lattitude instead of Latitude
Dimensional instead of Dimension
(yes, I worked at Dell)

And always, ALWAYS, "kernal"

[absurdwords.livejournal.com]

correct: configure
incorect: centrifuge

[alithium.livejournal.com]

Pronunciations at their best, to add to the above McAfee poster...

Correct: McAfee
Incorrect: McFree, McFairy, MacAfree

McFairy has always been my personal favorite.

[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.

[kelly-bean.livejournal.com]

EVERYDAY.

linksys= "link-skies"

[trayce.livejournal.com]

Correct: authentication
Incorrect: "authentification" which I get ALL the time, even from consluttants! WTF!

[princess-kessie.livejournal.com]

I still love the (very deliberate) MicroSloth...

[redqueenmeg.livejournal.com]

There was this one guy who was trying to login to one of our websites and he called up to get what he called his "dominance."

"Your dominance?"
"Yeah. I have my username and my password, but not my dominance."
(I looked at the page in question, which has clearly labeled spaces for your username, your password, and your domain.
"You mean you need your domain information?"
"That's what I said. I DON'T HAVE MY DOMINANCE!"

This guy was, of course, several levels above me in the company.

[iterative-steps.livejournal.com]

lmao at simon tech