View Poll Results: How do you pronounce the name of the Asus computer brand?

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  • Asus, like, the way it's actually pronounced. What's so hard about that?

    14 38.89%
  • With a sloppy schwa, like "the", or a "short U", like "us."

    9 25.00%
  • With a "long U" sound, like "boot," to make you cry.

    10 27.78%
  • None of those! I'll explain in the thread.

    3 8.33%
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Thread: How do you pronounce the name "Asus"?

  1. #21
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    Re: How do you pronounce the name "Asus"?

    I am a regular Ace-us sayer. Seems the most logical to me.

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    Re: How do you pronounce the name "Asus"?

    I would say "AY-suss"

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    Re: How do you pronounce the name "Asus"?

    Thanks for the responses, everyone! (And I'm enjoying some of the creative ones. = D )

    Quote Originally Posted by jwbrase View Post
    I actually pronounce it more like "A sis" (or /ɛisIs/ in IPA, weird things happen to my unstressed schwas), but the pronunciation used by the company itself is what's authoritative.
    Oh, agreed - I've just never heard any English speaker actually pronounce it the way the lady in the video does. It's also hard to argue that one mispronunciation is more correct than another, which makes just about anything fair game. = )

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    Re: How do you pronounce the name "Asus"?

    Ace-us

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    Re: How do you pronounce the U in the name "Asus"?

    I pronounce it ah-SOOS.
    Last edited by MarkC3pO; March 12th, 2012 at 04:19 PM.

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    Re: How do you pronounce the name "Asus"?

    I used to pronounce it like Ah soos, but then I took a linguistic module to my brain.

    Now I pronounce it A - suhs.
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    Re: How do you pronounce the name "Asus"?

    I pronounce it the correct way. A soos, with a long "a" sound and the first syllable stressed.

    It's confusing because it wasn't always pronounced that way. It wasn't too long ago that the company changed its official pronunciation to be that. It used to be pronounced
    a SOOS, with the last syllable stressed. As ridiculous as this sounds, they changed the official pronunciation because they wanted to compete more with Acer, which has the first syllable stressed.
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    Re: How do you pronounce the name "Asus"?

    IT all depends on what product im working with and how it is working.

    The only dumb question is the one not asked.

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    Re: How do you pronounce the name "Asus"?

    It's spelled "Asus", but it's pronounced "throat-wobbler mangrove".

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    Re: How do you pronounce the name "Asus"?

    Quote Originally Posted by Simian Man View Post
    It's spelled "Asus", but it's pronounced "throat-wobbler mangrove".
    Lol.
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