Pronounce IT

[Dr Small]

I apologize up front for making myself look like an utter idiot, but as I am the only tech-savvy person around me and I rarely get out, there are some things that I feel I do not know how to pronounce correctly, and fear I am in error when I pronounce it.

For instance, with the abbreviation "IT".
I pronounce it as the word "it", but I fear that I err and it is pronounced "aye tee". I understand what it stands for, but simply not how to say it.

How is "it" said? :D

Dr Small

[FuturePilot]

I've always just said the letters.
aye-tee, IT
;)

[dizee]

Pronounced as letters, I. T., not it.

[Dr Small]

Ok, thanks. And I do reverso for GNU. I say the letters and not how it is supposed to be said :p

[Zayne]

I'd agree with Aye-Tee. Information Technology. So it makes sense to pronounce the first letter of each word instead of in a word in itself, being an abbreviation. =]

[sorak]

gnu is pronounced like "new", so i always spell that out, too. otherwise nobody is going to know what youre talking about.

[hhhhhx]

guu-new

[Jim!]

I pronounce it 'Aye-Tee' and so does everyone else in my I.T. class. So I figure that's just how its said;)

[Dr Small]

Thanks for the correction fellows :)

[intense.ego]

just to reitterate what the others said: i, and everyone else i know, say Aye-Tee. I say GNU as "new" when talking to someone who would know what it meant, otherwise i say each letter individually.

[p_quarles]

Gnu, both the animal and the OS, are pronounced ga-new.

[FuturePilot]

Gnu, both the animal and the OS, are pronounced ga-new.

That's the way I've always said it ;)

[Mazza558]

aye tee is the only way really...

[Tristam Green]

IT is the "it group" for certain.

However, I've always said it like "E.T." but with an "I".

[sloggerkhan]

eye - tea

[hkgonra]

Gnu, both the animal and the OS, are pronounced ga-new.


as in Gary ?

[SunnyRabbiera]

KNIGHTS OF NI:
Aaaaugh! Aaaugh!
HEAD KNIGHT:
Augh! Ohh! Don't say that word.
ARTHUR:
What word?
HEAD KNIGHT:
I cannot tell, suffice to say is one of the words the Knights of Ni cannot hear.
ARTHUR:
How can we not say the word if you don't tell us what it is?
KNIGHTS OF NI:
Aaaaugh!
HEAD KNIGHT:
You said it again!
ARTHUR:
What, 'is'?
KNIGHTS OF NI:
Agh! No, not 'is'.
HEAD KNIGHT:
No, not 'is'. You wouldn't get vary far in life not saying 'is'.
KNIGHTS OF NI:
No, not 'is'. Not 'is'.
BEDEVERE:
My liege, it's Sir Robin!
MINSTREL: [singing]
He is packing it in and packing it up
And sneaking away and buggering up
And chickening out and @#$# off home,
Yes, bravely he is throwing in the sponge.
ARTHUR:
Sir Robin!
ROBIN:
My liege! It's good to see you.
HEAD KNIGHT:
Now he's said the word!
ARTHUR:
Surely you've not given up your quest for the Holy Grail?
MINSTREL: [singing]
He is sneaking away and buggering up--
ROBIN:
Shut up! No, no. No. Far from it.
HEAD KNIGHT:
He said the word again!
KNIGHTS OF NI:
Aaaaugh!
ROBIN:
I was looking for it.
KNIGHTS OF NI:
Aaaaugh!
ROBIN:
Uh, here-- here in this forest.
ARTHUR:
No, it is far from this place.
KNIGHTS OF NI:
Aaaaugh!
HEAD KNIGHT:
Aaaaugh! Stop saying the word! The word...
ARTHUR:
Oh, stop it!
HEAD KNIGHT:
...we cannot hear! Ow! He said it again!
ARTHUR:
Patsy!
HEAD KNIGHT:
Wait! I said it! I said it!
[clop clop clop]
Ooh! I said it again! And there again! That's three 'it's! Ohh!
KNIGHTS OF NI:
Aaaaugh!...

[MRiGnS]

gnu is pronounced like "new", so i always spell that out, too. otherwise nobody is going to know what youre talking about.

" the correct pronunciation is "guh-NEW" -- pronounce the hard "G"."

-- Richard M. Stallman

From: http://www.gnu.org/events/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt



Gnu, both the animal and the OS, are pronounced ga-new.

No, according to Merriam-Webster the animal's name is pronounced \ˈnü and also ˈnyü\

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gnu

[days_of_ruin]

gnu is pronounced like "new", so i always spell that out, too. otherwise nobody is going to know what youre talking about.
I pronounce it ga-new so people actually know what I am talking about.

[hhhhhx]

espeak does it *almost right*


$ espeak gnu:lolflag:

[DeadZedz]

You english and your spelling and pronunciation. Why not just spell how you hear things and write how you say them.
IT sounds like eee theee , like biiig and latteee

[hhhhhx]

You english and your spelling and pronunciation. Why not just spell how you hear things and write how you say them.

+1

[klange]

The abbreviation "IT" referring to "Information Technology" is pronounced "eye tee" - because it's an abbreviation and you say the letters. Period.

[popch]

The abbreviation "IT" referring to "Information Technology" is pronounced "eye tee" - because it's an abbreviation and you say the letters. Period.

How do you say RADAR and LASER, then?

[toupeiro]

I do not work for the it, I work for I.T.

[klange]

How do you say RADAR and LASER, then?
Though both were just abbreviations in the past, they've transitioned into words because they were designed to be easy to say
"ray dar" "lay zer"

I've heard both in the abbreviation form before, though.

[popch]

"ray dar" "lay zer". I've heard both in the abbreviation form before, though.

Not much of a rule set to go on, it appears to me. 'IT' being treated as an abbreviation, GNU, RADAR and so on like words. Does anyone remember VTAM and BTAM?

[DeadZedz]

Though both were just abbreviations in the past, they've transitioned into words because they were designed to be easy to say
"ray dar" "lay zer"

I've heard both in the abbreviation form before, though.

I say radar and laser the way I read them ; not like english - REIDAAR , LEIZZEEERR
I say RAADAAR , LAASEER (except with one wovel not long like that)
The same goes for IT - IIITEEE


IT sounds like eee theee , like biiig and latteee
how do you say AUTO, automatic , automatik - do you say aaa uuu t ooo or like english - oootou
fotograaf - phoutougraaph
newpaper - njuuspaper
apelsin

[klange]

Ok... Right...

We need to set up some ground rules for our pronunciations...
I move that we use the IPA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet) to write our pronunciations.

[aɪ tɪ]

That is how I pronounce I.T.

[Tomy]

espeak does it *almost right*


$ espeak gnu:lolflag:
LOL indeed

I have been using Linux for 5 years and did not know about the espeak command. Although I do know how to pronounce gnu.

But tell me -- how do you pronounce GIF? espeak has it almost right.

Thanks

[myusername]

i say G.I.F.

[JacobRogers]

As kind of a little household joke, sometimes we pronounce abbreviations like they're words. Like my school's abbreviations are U.S.M. and more often then not when I'm talking to my friends and family I'll say "us-em" but that's more of a localized in-joke, nobody else I know really says things like that.