Tech Words You Are Probably Mispronouncing

Have you ever wondered why some people pronounce certain words differently than you do? The words that you use all the time?

If you have, you probably know how difficult it can be to decide who is right, especially if a word in question doesn’t exist in a dictionary. Moreover, you may also ask yourself if there are any other words that you mispronounce all the time.

Tech words seem to cause the most hype in this respect. Since we generally see or type them more often than we say them out loud, their pronunciation may often be wrapped up in an enigma! Do you remember the ‘’GIF’’ debate? You were probably in the majority of people who pronounced it with a hard /G/ instead of ‘’jiff’’.

After the infamous ‘’gif’’ argument, many of us have started questioning pronunciation of other tech words. Gif, meme, Wi-Fi… those are just some of the terms people around the word pronounce differently and keep arguing about! There’s even a big online poll in which you can take part and have your say in the debate.

We give you two conflicted pronunciations for each of these tech words along with some additional information.

Buckle up and get ready for some surprises!

GIF

‘’ghif’’ or ‘’jiff’’

Meme

‘’meem’’ or ‘’me-me’’

Data

‘’day-tuh’’ or ‘’dat-uh’’

Wi-Fi

‘’wee-fee’’ or ‘’why-fy’’

Linux

‘’lie-nux’’ or ‘’linn-ux’’

Cache

‘’cash-ay’’ or ‘’cash’’

Apart from these examples there are others that need to be clarified. You probably use, or better say see them very often. Listen to their correct pronunciation; you might have been pronouncing some of them wrong.

Router

Imgur

LOL

XOXO

Xenon

Etc.

Twitter

Ubuntu

Wikipedia

ASUS

We would like to hear from you – how do you pronounce these words? Does the pronunciation of the word ‘’GIF’’ surprise and confuse you? If you know any other examples that need further explanation, please let us know.