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How do you pronounce the word "TiBook"?

How do you pronounce the word "TiBook"?

  • TIE Book (you say Ti as a word)

    Votes: 101 63.1%

  • TEE EYE Book (you pronounce the letters T and I)

    Votes: 59 36.9%
  • Total voters
    160
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Original poster
Having this (stupid) debate with my friend. How do you pronounce the word TiBook (as in the Titanium PowerBook)?

Please vote in the poll the way you pronounce it.

Thanks!
 
Tie Book, totally. I mean, it's not T I tanium, right?

I think your friend is going to lose this vote in a landslide ... 😛
 
Actually, I call it "laptop". Nobody would know what I was talking about if I said TiBook.

In fact, the only place I ever use TiBook is online. When you first come to say a word to someone which you have only ever before read, it can be quite bizarre. I got some odd looks for saying "Ess-sea-ess-eye" instead of "scuzzy", once. Though I think my way is better.
 
I have never heard it called Tie Book, its Tee Eye.🙂 Just like my A L book, its not named Al as in Bundy.
 
I've always said "Tie Book." But I've never heard anyone else say it aloud, I just assumed it was short-hand for "titanium book."
 
I think that the letters are pronounced separately, but then I am usually wrong with how to pronounce things so it probably actually is the opposite.
 
I've always spelled the letters out. But you know what? It doesn't matter anymore. It's MBP, mothaf*cka!



irmongoose
 
Neither. I simply say "Ti Book", the "ti" sounding like the beginning of "tits" 😛 Finnish pronouncing for the win.

I guess that means I say it as a word, so I'll just vote for the first option
 
Neither, it's a "PowerBook" or specifically a "Titanium Powerbook"

TiBook is shorthand that is not meant to be spoken.
 
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