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10 Commonly Mispronounced Tech Words

Meme, GIF, WiFi, cache – find out if you're pronouncing these words correctly.

iTouch, you say? No.

The Internet has taken over the world by storm. And what used to be tech jargons have now made their way to everyday conversations. But some words seem to have been lost in translation or grossly misread.

So before you start laughing at your friends for saying “iTouch” instead of iPod Touch, make sure that you're not guilty of mispronouncing the following tech words.
 

  1. GIF
    noun; Graphics Interchange Format; more commonly known as those hilarious moving images you see on BuzzFeed and 9Gag.

Correct pronunciation: The correct way of saying GIF has been widely debated on the Internet. Despite it's creator Steve Wilhite, stating that it should be pronounced as “jif” with a soft-G, a lot of people are still insisting that it's “gif” with a hard-G. The Oxford Dictionary has added both pronunciations as accepted ways of saying the word.

Whether it's “jif” or “gif”, at least we can all agree that GIFs have made the Internet a more hilarious place.

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Wrong pronunciation: Certainly not by spelling it out “G-I-F”
 

  1. meme
    noun; viral Internet joke usually in the form of a photo with text

Correct pronunciation: “meem” as in “meet”
Wrong pronunciation: “me-me”, “mem”
 

  1. cache
    noun; refers to the storing of recently used information to the computer's memory so it can access it faster.

Correct pronunciation: “cash”
Wrong pronunciation: “ca-shey”
 

  1. iPod Touch
    noun; a touchscreen device made by Apple that functions like the iPhone but without its call and text features

Correct pronunciation: “iPod Touch”

Wrong pronunciation: “iTouch” We've all heard it. People trying to shortcut the name by saying “iTouch”. Stop it people! There's no such thing as an “iTouch”. What, what are you touching? (insert straight face meme here)
 

  1. Nokia
    noun; Finnish company famous for its mobile phones in the early 2000s

Correct pronunciation: “knock-yah” according to actual Finnish people
Wrong pronunciation: “no-key-ya” Apparently, most of us here in the Philippines have got it wrong
 

  1. WiFi
    noun; A facility allowing computers, smartphones, or other devices to connect to the Internet or communicate with one another wirelessly within a particular area. (source: Oxford Dictionary); a.k.a. the first thing you look for when in a restaurant

Correct pronunciation: “wīfī”
Wrong pronunciation: “wee-fee”, “wifey”
 

  1. router
    noun; a device that mediates the transmission routes of data packets over an electronic communications network (as the Internet). (source: Merriam-Webster)

Correct pronunciation: “rau-ter”
Wrong pronunciation: “rooter”

Update: "Rooter" is also an accepted way of pronouncing router especially in the UK.

  1. Imgur
    noun; Imgur is a free image hosting website that lets users share digital images online

Correct pronunciation: “image-er” (source: Imgur)
Wrong pronunciation: “im-gur”, “im-jour”
 

  1. Asus
    noun; Asus is the world's 5th largest PC vendor as of 2013 (source: Gartner)

Correct pronunciation: “Eh-SUS” (source: Engadget)
Wrong pronunciation: “Ah-sus”
 

  1. Linux
    noun; an open source operating system

Correct pronunciation: “lih-nux” (source)
Wrong pronunciation: “lie-nuks”

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