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[ravenofdreams]

 Things that irrationally annoy the bejeezus out of me: people who say "linksee" instead of "linksys".

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[kizayaen]

I don't think I've ever had that happen, but if I did, I'd be completely with you on that.

[alicephilippa]

How in heck do they manage to get that pronunciation? I know we mangle things with the pronunciation of acronyms but not quite that badly.

[jamoche]

False plural, like the way cherise (singular) became cherries (plural)?

[gholam]

"Goggle" instead of "Google". "Boomgar" instead of "Bomgar". Usually the same person.

[gholam]

Couple more - "Perversive SQL" (originally Pervasive), "nestix" (originally "netstick", a local name for USB cellular modems).

[asbrand]

We use a lot of Juniper routers in our ISP backbone.

Care to guess what they get called?

Old guy on the Transport team who sits a few desks over from me will get a call from them for us, and will tell me "I got a call for you from the men from Jupiter..."

*head to desk*

"Send 'em to Uranus!" :P

-Az

[c0nsumer]

My favorite is MacAfee instead of McAfee.

[bekscilla]

I hear that one constantly. I don't remember the last time it was pronounced McAfee

[c0nsumer]

I've even heard it from some of their employees.