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Pronouce "VIA" Hardware



<< John--

Would you call the CIA the &quot;see-uh&quot; ? 😀

Should this be a poll question? >>



No, but would you call &quot;live via satellite&quot; vee-eye-a.
 


<< Vee-ya >>


Wingnutz is right, in all the press conferences I've seen that's how the employees pronounce VIA.
 
Yes, it could have been the perfect poll question with binary choices, but I was hoping everyone was going to agree early...I guess this is up-in-the-air. I call it &quot;vee-ya&quot;.
 
No, but would you call &quot;live via satellite&quot; vee-eye-a.

But John,

CIA is short for a few words, so is VIA. Via is a word in itself.

😕
 
<<The CIA is short for a few words, so is VIA.>>

VIA is not short for a few words, it's just VIA(Vee-ya). However, ALi is short for a few words(Acer Labs Inc) but we still call it Ah-Li, and SiS(Silicon Integrated Systems), we still call it sis.
 
I have been to several conventions like a few others that have replied in this thread. It is typically pronounced vee-uh, or I have heard vee-ya. You can pronounce it any way you like though, I don't mind.
 
Im still wondering if VIA stands for something, perhaps originally an oriental word. I went to the website and decided to send an email to the US Contact for VIA. He may or not respond. But I guess it is a matter of preference.

Just like the word FNMA. Its short for the Federal National Mortgage Association, but people call it FannieMae. Oh well.
 
via is the latin word for road.. puella est in via.. the girl is in the road.. thus, via makes chipsets that makes roads for cpus and ram.. something like that
 


<< via is the latin word for road.. puella est in via.. the girl is in the road.. thus, via makes chipsets that makes roads for cpus and ram.. something like that >>


well in that case it should be pronounced &quot;wee-ah&quot;
 
OK here it is from the horses mouth:

Paul - VIA (spelled all caps) is not an abbreviation, it's just the name of
the company. Implies 'way' and therefore, 'connectivity'. Pronounced
'vee-ah'.

Rgds,


Dan Havey
Director - US Marketing
VIA Technologies Inc.
Email1: dhavey@centtech.com
Email2: danhavey@via-cyrix.com
Tel: 1.512.493.8614
Fax: 1.253.276.7732 (Temporary)
Mobile: 1.832.594.3047
www.viatech.com

I stand corrected.
 
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