OT: Super Pronunciation thread... How do you say? ...

[joshg]

OK, I saw an ASUS pronunciation thread, but that made me realize, how do you pronounce anything in this industry, really?

Things I am particularly interested in the pronunciation of:

EPoX (Is it EEE-Pocks or Eh-Pucks, etc ?)
VIA (sounds like "leaving via bus", or is it like the via in "viable" ?)
Soyo (So-Yo ?)
Abit (A-Bit, or Ah-bit ?)
Radeon (Rad-eon ? or Ray-deon ?)
GeForce (Gee-Force ?)

and these are just ones that I can think of right now... Anyone know the official way to say any of these? It really throws me for a loop sometimes...

May add more later

EDIT: Also what about nVidia (en-vid-ee-ahh, or en-veed-ee-ahh ??)


- Josh

 

[irichie]

Let me try ..

EEE-Pocks
VIA (like via bus)
Soy-o
A-Bit
Ray-Deon
Gee-Force

I think?

 

[joshg]

lol.. yeah... I always say VIA like Vi (rhymes w/ Hi) - Ah... does anyone know the official word on any of these pronunciations, like directly from the companies themselves? heh

 

[Chibotta]

Most of those brands are taiwanese, do you think they DO know to pronunciate their own brands right?

 

[Boonesmi]

ok, how about the chipset maker SIS???
ive heard people say it as just the leters S I S, or sis as in the first part of sister

 

[Boonesmi]

heck for that matter what about ALI? is it "A" "L" "I" or is it like alley?

 

[Chibotta]

iomega: "i-omega" or "e-omega"?