Common mispronounced IT brands and technical terms:

Adobe : say A-Doe-Bee
Linux : say Lee-Nux (as pronounced by Linus Torvald) NOT Lie-Nux (as many american and european do)
AJAX : say A-Jack (not Ajax as the soccer team where we pronounce it with the silence 'J' as in spanish)
Class : say Cl-Ass/Cl-Last (not Ke-Last as you pronounce it in Malay!)
Wi-Fi : say Why-Fhai
SCSI: say Scuzzy/Ska-Zie
WSDL : say Weasedel
Apache : say Aaa-pa-chey
MySQL : say My-Sequel/My-See-Kwel OR simply My-S-Q-L
Algorithm : say Al-Gore-Ree-Tuhm

...well that's all that popped in my head for now. Feel free to add... (or ask, but I seldomly visit this forum lately, maybe someone else will help you) =)

P/s: This is a tribute to this thread and for those who want to improve their English for interview (especially for an IT related position) =)

Is that right we pronounce Adobe like A-Doe-Bee ..seriously? I always say it like Adopt...hehehehe

we seldomly mispronounce them
because we like to pronounce the words with malay word..
for example:

JOSE: jo-se
but the right pronounce is: ho-se

totally agree....

And while reading this thread,I've discovered that the spelling for pronunciation is actually 'Pronunciation'..

Yes it's right ..we pronounce it as an A Doe Bee ...not "adobe" like "adopt"...



“Pronounce” is the verb, but the O is omitted for the noun: “pronunciation.”

Sorry,my mistakes...

something like explanation for explain

Wow. I've just discovered how to pronounce those words although I don't know the meaning of some of them.

nahhhh..now i know..
but most of my lecture pronounce it as adop


~editted

my bad

Hye i have problem pronuncing this often seeing word (kaspersky)
Is it sound like -ski or -sky (langit)?

Haha, I don't think I can help you with russian, but yeah I do always pronounce it as Casper-Skee...and I guess I am right, a little bit of googling brought me to this link, check it out =)


...and don't forget to listen to this:

Assalamualaikum
Electroboy is correct. The English pronunciation for Kaspersky is Casper-skee. It is also flattering to pronounce Kaspersky in its native pronunciation like what you hear in that audio file (Kaas-piersh-kee OR Kaas-piers-kee) but to conventional speakers' ears, it could sound rather weird
So, i'd say, go with Electroboy. Casperskee.


Cik Bedah
Temerloh

p/s: I will brutally voodoo you all if you pronounce my name as Sick Bidder!~~

Ok2 Cik Bedah .. hehehe i wount pronunce that .. i have read link given by electroboy.. it seem that im not the only one having this problem .. almost worldwide

hm..how about this science term, diarrhoea? I heard the narrator pronounce it as dai-ri. Is that correct?

It is pronounced as Dare-Rhea

is it? i thought it is pronounced as daierea / direrea something like that

Hmm that depends on how you really pronounce the "daierea / direrea". It's correct if you pronounce it as daie-rea or dire-rea..

hi all,
hope you can help me on this..how to pronounce this word 'awe' ??

Pronounce As Diary-Arrr..hhahaha ..but it's the easiest thing to remember rite?...




It's An AWE = "Orw" like u saying "OR" but a little bit hard in the end...and with disappearing "R".

Bout kasperky thing...my friend almost beat me coz he always saying it like SKY in the end..but im always saying that he was wrong...but yeah..he got so "weird" (pronounce as Wee-Yerd) english....

How about Hallelujah? I thought Hal-le-lu-jah buat the correct pronounciation for this word is Hal-la-lu-yah. Is this correct?

It's A-lay-lu-yah

eherm,

ALLOWED = L-LA-WED (not al-low-wed)

tq.

correct me if i'm wrong

perhaps you guys should check on the meaning of the words first?

Ok, try to pronounce these words:

exaggerated
usher



Ah, I'll post more. Just try these two firsts ok.

exegerated = ex-ze-je-rei-ted
usher = a-sher

how to pronounce "Scythe"

ok try this

"pwned"

"pwned" is suppose to be "owned" but some game developer made a typo in a game.. its HALO or something.. so gamers started to use "pwned" instead of "owned".. its not an actual word..

i thought it was pawned

quote from wikipedia article

Allowed is pronounced as allowed without the funny ~weddd on the tail (~ed is ok). And there is no such word or abbreviation as "pwned", so don't bother about how to pronounce it properly.

One more common mispronounced word - Archive is pronounced as ar-khai-ve, not ar-chee-ve. But you may pronounce the word achieve as ac-chee-ve

Scythe - Sai-Th or Sye

Izwan, perhaps you mean exaggerated = Eeck-zag-ger-rated
...and usher = Ush-Er

How bout

POEM po-wem or poyem?
IKEA ee-keya or ee-kiya or i-keya or i-kiya?
DEVIANT dee-vai-ant or dee-vee-ant?

and how about cache??
how to say that word??

catch?

It's pronounced as Ka-Sh

connection

is it ke-nek-syen ?

POEM - poyem
DEVIANT - dee-vai-yent

um.. wrong la

POEM = po mmmmm @ po emm
DEVIANT = di vi ent

aik? wrong eh? haha my bad

i see

how about 'pioneer'...

Hmmm
Dengan cara sebutan/ejaan Bahasa Malaysia ...

1. Pai-ni-ye ... huruf 'o' pada ejaan asal tidak dibunyikan.
2. Pa-ye-ni-ye ... dengan sukukata kedua dibunyikan dengan sayup.
3. Pa-yo-ni-ye ... dengan sukukata kedua dibunyikan dengan sayup

Similarly, with English sound pronouncing ...

1. Pie-near .. the letter 'o' in the original spelling is silenced.
2. Pie-year-near .. with 'year' softened; not stressed.
3. Pie-yaw-near .. with 'yaw' softened; not stressed.

Choose any

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Cik Bedah
Temerloh

determine = di-ter-main OR di- ter - mein OR di-ter-men

advertisement= ad-ver-tais-men OR ad-ver-tis-ment?

[quote name='scorps' date='Apr 4 2007, 03:27 PM' post='462805']
and how about cache??
how to say that word??
[/quote

Barely 5 mins ago I saw this movie 'Scanner Darkly', and 'cache' i pronounced as 'ka-shey'

[quote name='scorps' date='Apr 4 2007, 03:27 PM' post='462805']
and how about cache??
how to say that word??
[/quote

Barely 5 mins ago I saw this movie 'Scanner Darkly', and apparently 'cache' is pronounced as 'ka-shey'
But it could be a different 'cache' *shrugs* pening dowh.

Cachet is pronounced as 'ka-shey' but Cache is cache (Ka-Sh, rhyme with "cash"). Hmm my friend once recommended me a dictionary software... "advanced cambridge dictionary" or something...I've tested it on his PC. I believe that it is the best tool for any of us to learn and hear the correct pronunciation of most words in the english dictionary, both in English and American accent. Plus I just figured out that Answers.com also provides similar tool for pronunciation, maybe you should try it =)



determine = Dee-ther-mean
advertisement = Ad-ver-tis-ment

how about router? ru - ter right? it come from the word "route", france if i'm not mistaken...but most people pronounced it as rau-ter.. correct me if im wrong..

Assalamualaikum

Benar 'route' ialah perkataan asal Bahasa Perancis. Ia disebut rut; mengikut sebutan hampir asal perancisnya, dan raut; mengikut gaya Bahasa Inggeris umum. 'Router' secara khususnya disebut rau-ter terutama sekali jika merujuk kepada alatan komunikasi tertentu.

EDIT: Its one of those days when you wake up and forget lots of things including rules and order. And by rule, i should have written in English up there shouldnt i ? My mistake. Here is a full English translation .. though it sounds much like what Electroboy have written down here anyway.

True, "route" is a word of French origin. It is pronounced as root; close to its original sound in French, and raowt; following the common English sound. "Router" is specifically pronounced as raow-ter, especially when it refers to a certain communication device.

Cik Bedah
Temerloh

Good question! Yup route is origin of french (askoxford.com). And router have two different meaning:
http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=router&gwp=13

But don't be confused with the answers.com pronunciation! . Router for router (computer science) is pronounced as Rau-ter.

I teach you how to pronounce some words that end with -ght.

bought = bout = bot (Malay) dont care "gh" sound.
night = nite = naet [Malay] dont care "gh" sound.
might = mite = Mait [Malay] dont care "gh" sound
night = nite = nait [Maly] dont care "gh" sound
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how about words that end with -th sound?

bluetooth = bluetoos is this right? Not blue-tut . Haha

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pizza = pit-saa

Hahahahahahah.

and death?

how bout PLAGUE??
1 question here..how to differentiate about cant well as all you know..american people said with silent T
sometimes i'm bit confused about it..whether they said Can or Cant
anyone knows how to differentiate it for me..

i said it cant because my teacher teach to pronounce like that..