How do you pronounce OSX?

[jsw]

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?

Clearly, VIM is "994", right? My memory of Roman numerals is a bit dim. But at least I use the Latin pronunciation of the X in OS X, which, of course, is "Ex".

 

[bousozoku]

I pity those trying to pronounce "X11". As well as those old-timers who edit with "six", er, vi.

It's easy to pronounce X11, ex windows. What did all these people call it before it got to the current release?

People shouldn't even use vi, the visual interface to ed. It's easier to use ed or emacs or Teco or pico or...

 

[janey]

Clearly, VIM is "994", right? My memory of Roman numerals is a bit dim. But at least I use the Latin pronunciation of the X in OS X, which, of course, is "Ex".

ROFLMAO i forgot about that
Hehe

I rather like vi. and vim. and nano. emacs i use, but ehhhh...

 

[cifriX]

I say it Mac OS 10. Which has been the official way to say it since its release. However I sometimes jokingly call it Mac OS neXt - for various reasons (but for that matter you could just as well call it Copland, Rhapsody, BeOS, or Mac OS Classic; seeings it contains technologys for each of these OS's mixed together).

 

[Applespider]

How many OS "Ex"ers started using their Macs after OS 9 was relegated to Classic level?

And how many OS "Ten"ers upgraded from OS 9 to make it seem really logical?

I missed out on OS 8 and 9 while on the dark side. When I looked at Macs again late last year, I saw it and automatically read it as OS eX (despite 5 years of Latin) probably because I like how it sounds and people generally know what it means outside the Mac community.

 

[yellow]

How many OS "Ex"ers started using their Macs after OS 9 was relegated to Classic level?

Not I. My first Mac was a System 6 Mac SE in 1990, and every OS in between that and OSX. But I still say OS eX.
My first Apple was an Apple IIe. I say 2E.

 

[jxyama]

How many OS "Ex"ers started using their Macs after OS 9 was relegated to Classic level?

And how many OS "Ten"ers upgraded from OS 9 to make it seem really logical?

I missed out on OS 8 and 9 while on the dark side. When I looked at Macs again late last year, I saw it and automatically read it as OS eX (despite 5 years of Latin) probably because I like how it sounds and people generally know what it means outside the Mac community.

i didn't consider buying a computer until i started working with OS 9. (this was a year and a half ago.) i hated windows but didn't want linux because i wanted a laptop with preloaded OS. and i thought OS 9 was better enough over windows so i wanted to get a Mac laptop. imagine my delight when i got to use OS X and found out that that would be the OS on the new Mac laptop!

 

[jsw]

How many OS "Ex"ers started using their Macs after OS 9 was relegated to Classic level?

Not me, either. I used my first Mac in the fall of 1984.

 

[kgarner]

OS Ten for me, though I have said OS Ex on occasion. Then I promptly slap myself silly to make pennance.

 

[Edot]

"Ex" is Wrong!

There is no reason is should be pronounced "Ex". The X in OS X is a roman numeral not a letter. Therefore it should assume the English pronunciation for this symbol, which is "Ten". As far as using the Latin pronunciation, that would be ok if you are speaking Latin but I could argue the same for OS "Diez" which is still "Ten" in English not "Ex". You would not say OS "Ekeese". I am amazed at all of the responses that pronounce it "Ex". I never hear it that way unless it is someone unfamiliar or new to Macs. Maybe it is a regional thing, but I still stand as "Ex" being incorrect. It isn't a preference, just as Windows "Ten Pee" would not be correct either.

 

[yellow]

Right or wrong, I will continue to say eX. I know how to say it properly. But as an American, it's my right to call it eX. Hell, I can call it Mac OS railroad-crossing if I want. Sweet! If that means to someone that I don't know anything about Mac OS X, so be it. They'd be quite wrong.

 

[James L]

Hehe, this thread cracks me up!

I switched to OSX basically the day it was released, and work with Mac heads daily... I am surrounded by them actually. I have NEVER heard it called OS Ex before, and all of a sudden now I see this thread that weighs about 50-50 on calling it OS ten vs. Os X!

Too funny, you learn a new thing everyday!

 

[Peyote]

Right or wrong, I will continue to say eX. I know how to say it properly. But as an American, it's my right to call it eX. Hell, I can call it Mac OS railroad-crossing if I want. Sweet! If that means to someone that I don't know anything about Mac OS X, so be it. They'd be quite wrong.

Amen brotha! I am not new to Macs, and was there to experience OS9 for a few years...and I'm still gonna call is OS ex no matter what. if Apple wanted it to ba called OS 10, they should have named it OS10.

The way I see it, OSX is so different and so much better than OS9 that it almost seems belittling to refer to it as OS 10....that just sound like a revision to OS9. OS Ex sounds much more like what OSX is...a huge leap in the OS evolution.

 

[jsw]

This thread is getting a wee bit too emotional on the part of some people, I think. No one here disputes that "OS Ten" is the correct pronunciation. Of course, the thread asks how we each say it, not what the correct pronunciation might happen to be. If Apple didn't want people to say "OS Ex" then they should have labeled it OS 10. In fact, they label the versions that way, but use the 'X' in the OS name.

Some of us just prefer "OS Ex", regardless of correctness. Does it really matter? Do many of the people in this forum actually talk to one another all that often?

And, BTW, the "Latin pronunciation of X" thing was a joke....

 

[jsw]

And with Xcode, Xgrid, X11 (admitedly, not Apple's), Xserve, and Exposé (anyone see a play on words there?), I don't think Apple's exactly discouraging the whole "Ex" pronunciation.

 

[hulugu]

Roman numeral

I wasted a year learning Latin and so I have always thought of OSX as 'ten', which makes logical sense considering it was previously 8, 9 etc. It makes more sense to say 10.3.5 as 'ten-dot-three-dot-five' rather than 'echs-dot-three-dot-five.'
The system is ultimately a number symbolized by the Roman Numeral.
How would you say Superbowl XXXIII?
'Welcome to Superbowl Echs-Echs-Echs-Three' or 'Echs-Echs-Echs-Eye-Eye-Eye'
Nope. It's 33 or 'thirty-three'.

Right or wrong, I will continue to say eX. I know how to say it properly. But as an American, it's my right to call it eX. Hell, I can call it Mac OS railroad-crossing if I want. Sweet!...

Mac OS 'Kris-Kross'
For a hip-hop generation; or at least those who can wear their shirts on backwards!

I pronounce it Ten, but OS Echs is just fine, if a little bit illogical.
Those silly Latinaes caused this in the first place.

 

[Dr. Dastardly]

I say O S ex just because its .002 seconds faster and time is money!





Really I just like how it rolls of the tounge easier than OS10, and for those that don't like it.

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BWA HA HA HA HA!

 

[MacFan26]

That's so awesome that Terminal says "OS X" as "OS Ten" but "Random Word X" as "Random Word Ex."

I say OS ten as well. I said ex when I first started hearing about it, until I realized it was supposed to be a roman numeral. Anyway, I love that thing about the Terminal too, I didn't know about the "say" command until today

 

[apple2991]

Jobs says OS Ten, so i do too.

 

[7on]

I say OS TEN.

I believe that is the correct way to say it. In fact if you go into terminal and use the 'say' command with the sentence "I love Mac OS X" it will also say OS ten when it reads it back.

Type "I love Mac OSX" without the space...

hmmmmmmm a pickle to your scheme

 

[mkrishnan]

I say OS ten as well. I said ex when I first started hearing about it, until I realized it was supposed to be a roman numeral. Anyway, I love that thing about the Terminal too, I didn't know about the "say" command until today

This say command is super-fun. I tried to trick it with "MacOS X Malcolm X MacOS X" but it stayed with me. But it does say Office dot Ex....

Oh, another funny one: it says XServe correctly because it knows it too. If you put in some other random x word, like "xmosaic" (old school, right?), it doesn't pronounce it in the same way.

Ahhh, we could have a whole rumors board just off this command.

 

[homerjward]

i say os EX. but i hate people who say like "os ex 10.3 panther"

 

[bousozoku]

I wasted a year learning Latin and so I have always thought of OSX as 'ten', which makes logical sense considering it was previously 8, 9 etc. It makes more sense to say 10.3.5 as 'ten-dot-three-dot-five' rather than 'echs-dot-three-dot-five.'
The system is ultimately a number symbolized by the Roman Numeral.
How would you say Superbowl XXXIII?
'Welcome to Superbowl Echs-Echs-Echs-Three' or 'Echs-Echs-Echs-Eye-Eye-Eye'
Nope. It's 33 or 'thirty-three'.



Mac OS 'Kris-Kross'
For a hip-hop generation; or at least those who can wear their shirts on backwards!

I pronounce it Ten, but OS Echs is just fine, if a little bit illogical.
Those silly Latinaes caused this in the first place.

Even they would not go through all of that.

X = decem.
XXXIII = triginta et tres.

 

[hulugu]

Latin geeks unite

Even they would not go through all of that.

X = decem.
XXXIII = triginta et tres.

Exactly.

Even they knew better.

 

[Colonel Panik]

Personally I couldn't give a rat's behind, and I say '10' | 'X' depending on which way the wind is blowing (yes, really).

I don't know. Some people argue that it's called '10' because that's a natural progression from 8, 9... which is not true.
Before Mac OS X, we used Mac OS 9, NOT Mac OS IX.
So it's clear that Apple were trying to tie into the whole 'generation X' use of X, which is 'cool'. Hence, although they've said that it should be pronounced 'OS 10', it's ambiguous. If it's 'OS ten', then why not write it 'OS 10'? Why 'OS X'? Since when did we all start counting in roman numerals once we reach X, er, ten?

Let's see, they could have done it in hex, and we could be on 'OS A', or perhaps binary, so that would be 'OS 00001011', "but pronounced 'OS Ten'".

It used to be that movie sequels were billed as 'II', 'IV', etc., but now they're sticking with Arabic numerals, ala 'Spiderman 2'. Why is that? Are people getting dumber?