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How do you pronounce OSX?

MacRy said:
You shouldn't take it so personally dude. Our American cousins mispronounce a number of things in the 'English language' but I don't go around 'bitchslapping' them.

;)
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OK, but I think it would be funny as hell if you did. Like, if every time I said "aluminum", a brit pranced out and slapped me, I would totally remember to say "aluminium".

But, as alanbuilds says, Jobs is quite clear on the OS X issue in his keynotes...

paul
 
jsw said:
I also say - out loud - "jiff" instead of "giff" when I'm talking about GIF files. Anyone have a problem with that? ;)
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Do you like your image files creamy or chunky? :D Maybe with a little jelly?

Hehe, always been a "giff" man myself. I wonder if thats a Minesooooota thing?
 
FriarCrazy said:
Do you like your image files creamy or chunky? :D Maybe with a little jelly?

Hehe, always been a "giff" man myself. I wonder if thats a Minesooooota thing?
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No, it's a whichever-idiot-first-told-me-how-to-pronounce-it thing. They said "jiff", it was internalized, and now that's how I say it. As I speak it out loud maybe a couple of times a year, it's no big deal. Now I just say "PNG". ;)
 
Thirteenva said:
Well if you think about it in terms of past apple os's such as OS nine, OS eight, etc... You'd call it OS ten.

LOL its' just an odd pet peeve of mine, like when people type MAC in all caps. Its not an acronym, its Mac, a proper name.
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Interesting.

You misuse two apostrophes, miss two out, and write OS in lower case letters -- strange for a person with such strong feelings about written and spoken English.
 
paulwhannel said:
OK, but I think it would be funny as hell if you did. Like, if every time I said "aluminum", a brit pranced out and slapped me, I would totally remember to say "aluminium".
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The Brits are wrong - in a sense - on this one. A Brit named it - "aluminum" - and that became accepted, but then other Brits wanted it to sound more like the other element names, so they renamed it "aluminium". In a very real sense, "aluminum" is the original and 'correct' spelling/pronunciation, and "aluminium" is 'wrong'.
 
As noted a buncha times before, it's officially pronounced Oh-Es-Ten.

However, I say Oh-Es-Ex, and will continue to do so until Oh-Es-Eleven.

Because I refuse to say Oh-Es-Ex-Eye. That's just stupid.
 
jsw said:
The Brits are wrong - in a sense - on this one. A Brit named it - "aluminum" - and that became accepted, but then other Brits wanted it to sound more like the other element names, so they renamed it "aluminium". In a very real sense, "aluminum" is the original and 'correct' spelling/pronunciation, and "aluminium" is 'wrong'.
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Considering that the scientist who first named the element renamed it, those who stick with "aluminum" are wrong. :D Refusal to change does not make you correct. We could just minimise it the Japanese way to "alumi" and skip the debate.

As for OS X (not OSX), oh es ten works quite well. It seems that many people don't seem to know their roman numerals, though, and are confused. Then, there are those people who were calling Mac OS 8, System 8, too. :D
 
bousozoku said:
Considering that the scientist who first named the element renamed it, those who stick with "aluminum" are wrong. :D Refusal to change does not make you correct. We could just minimise it the Japanese way to "alumi" and skip the debate.
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Well, there is dispute as to whether Sir Humphry Davy was involved as an advocate in the change to "aluminium", although he certainly advocated "aluminum". He first called it "alumium", though, which seems to me to be the easiest of all to say. :)
 
Heh. I say "Os Ten", but I wouldn't be taken aback for more than a second if someone said "O S Ten." If they said "Os Ex", I would think they were either a Mac user trying to be cute or a clueless Windows user.

I have to stand up for folks who type "Ipod" though. Incorrect, yes, but it takes time to retrain your fingers. With "MAC", they're ignoring the standard rules of the language to do their own bizarre thing with no logical justification. With "Ipod", at least they're following the rules of the language at the expense of the computer industry's bizarre and illogical defiance of proper capitalization.
 
bousozoku said:
It seems that many people don't seem to know their roman numerals, though, and are confused.
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I pity those trying to pronounce "X11". ;) As well as those old-timers who edit with "six", er, vi.
 
Bedawyn said:
With "MAC", they're ignoring the standard rules of the language to do their own bizarre thing with no logical justification.
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Oh for the love of hummus, don't get me started on that one.
 
Crucial said:
Interesting.

You misuse two apostrophes, miss two out, and write OS in lower case letters -- strange for a person with such strong feelings about written and spoken English.
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I also don't wash my hands after going to the bathroom. :rolleyes: :eek: :p

I believe I was commenting on spoken english, but your major is obviously in pointing out the obvious and not deciphering the context of the message.
 
jsw said:
I pity those trying to pronounce "X11". ;)
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:D LOL

It's so true.

It seems that it varies. In certain applications the "X" is a roman numeral, and in others, just a character.

For example:
xServe not "tenServe"
MacOS X not "Mac O S ex"

Ah well, when reading, I usually am thinking "OS Ex", but it always comes out properly as "Ten"
 
jsw said:
I also say - out loud - "jiff" instead of "giff" when I'm talking about GIF files. Anyone have a problem with that? ;)
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I'm also guilty of saying 'giff' and have been told repeatedly that 'jiff' is the correct pronunciation. Can we get an English major to weigh in on this?

Also I say PNG as 'p' 'n' 'g'. I can't bring myself to call it a 'ping'.
 
paulwhannel said:
OK, but I think it would be funny as hell if you did. Like, if every time I said "aluminum", a brit pranced out and slapped me, I would totally remember to say "aluminium".

But, as alanbuilds says, Jobs is quite clear on the OS X issue in his keynotes...

paul
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actually aluminum wwas originally written alumium, but it was then changed to aluminum to go better with latin but was later changed to aluminium by the british to go along w/ other elements so either would be correct really
 
aluminium or aluminum it doesn't matter! although it is funny to argue! :p I had a friend who was overly pro britain, he told me off EVERY single time i said an american word. Such as: Train station - railway station, schedule - sked-dule, etc etc. I don't really mind because i have accepted the fact that words from other languages or dialects get assimilated into our own language all the time.

BUT... If i see color written one more time!!!:mad::mad:

hehehehe... by the way its colour!(i won't win this arguement because most of you are american)
 
OS 10 all the way for me ever since 2000. ;)

Saying 'OS X' is just silly, as it's wrong... simple. Reminds me of all the muppets who insisted on calling Jaguar 'Jagwire' after it was announced, because "That's how Steve Jobs says it" :rolleyes: f**k me... how dim can you be. :eek: :rolleyes: :p :p
 
SolidGun said:
Apple took endless hours to come with names for specific OS X versions, let's call them Jaguar, Panther and Tiger......can you imagine the hard work of coming up with names like Panther and Tiger? Steve Jobs is suffering from illness from all that hard work. ;)
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I do the OS Ten. Probably because I still have a old PowerMac running OS "Nine" so that's how I keep 'em straight.

So, SolidGun raises an interesting question in my mind.... what happens when they run out of big cat names? Birds, Cars, rockets; whatever is fast? OS X Eagle, OS X Raven.... or OS X Turbo, OS X SuperCharged or OS X SuperSonic, OS X LightSpeed. Hmmm.
 
I always say OS "ten', and correct anybody who says OS "ex" (or "ix" as they would pronounce it over here :rolleyes: ).

It's one of our most-loved products!
Let's give it the respect it deserves all call it by its rightfull name. :p
 
its OS ten. OS ex sounds cool, but thats wrong. Yeah, you dont say vi is `six`, but the `X` in `OS X` is a version number thats in roman numerals. besides, what would you say for `vim`? six-m? :p

But this discussion is as pointless as `how do you pronounce linux?`, and half the people pronouncing it lih-nucks because thats how linus torvalds says it. :p really. as long as we all understand eachother who really cares? This is just a pronounciation quirk, no biggie. It is more...correct, in a way, to say OS ten though. Thats the way all the apple folks say it, as well as the majority of Maccies out there.

And I see I'm not the only one who has a pet peeve about the whole `MAC` or `Ipod` thing ;)
 
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