Virtualization Strategies for the CIO
How do you pronounce IT? Why, "eye-tee," of course! This page lists many of the most commonly mispronounced words in information technology. To hear each term pronounced, click the "play" button or the MP3 hyperlink if you don't have Flash installed. If you think an alternate pronunciation is correct or of another term in IT that people often mispronounce, please leave us voicemail with your version using the MyChingo player on the righ. Of course, you can always or send us an email and let us know, too.
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| TERM | PRONUNCIATION | HEAR IT |
| 802.11 | "eight-oh-two-dot-eleven" | MP3 |
| ABAP | "ah-bop" | MP3 |
| ACL | "aye-cee-el" or "aye-kull" | MP3 |
| acronym | AK-ruh-nihm" | MP3 |
| APAR | AY-pahr | MP3 |
| ASCII | ASK-ee | MP3 |
| BAPI | BAH- pee | MP3 |
| Beowulf | bay-oh-woolf | MP3 |
| cache | cash | MP3 |
| canonicalization | KA-nahn-nihk-uhl-ih-ZAY-shun | MP3 |
| CICS | kicks or cee-eye-cee-ess | MP3 |
| CISSP | cee-eye-ess-ess-pee | MP3 |
| CLEC | cleck or cee-leck | MP3 |
| COMMAREA | COM -area | MP3 |
| daemon | DEE-mon or DAY-mon | MP3 |
| data | DAY-tuh | MP3 |
| Debian | deb-ee-an | MP3 |
| DOS | doss | MP3 |
| EBCDIC | EHB-suh-dik | MP3 |
| FAQ | fack or eff-ay-q | MP3 |
| Fibre | fie-burr | MP3 |
| Freethem.K | free-thum-KAY (do not pronounce the dot) | MP3 |
| FUD | fud | MP3 |
| gibibyte | GIH-bee-bite | MP3 |
| GIF | giff (with a hard "g" as in goat) or jiff (as in the peanut butter) | MP3 |
| GNOME | GUH-nome or nome (rhymes with home) | MP3 |
| GNU | ga-noo or noo | MP3 |
| grok | grahk | MP3 |
| GUI | GOO-ee | MP3 |
| heterogeneous | het-ter-o-GENE-ee-us | MP3 |
| HIPAA | HIP-puh | MP3 |
| IDS | eye-dee-ess | MP3 |
| IPsec | EYE-pee-sec | MP3 |
| iSCSI | EYE-scuzzy | MP3 |
| IT | EYE-TEE | MP3 |
| ITIL | EYE-till | MP3 |
| J2EE | jay-TWO-ee-ee or, by some, jah-TOO-ee | MP3 |
| keitai | kay-tie | MP3 |
| Kerberos | KERR-berr-ross | MP3 |
| KLOC | KAY-lock | MP3 |
| LAN | lan (rhymes with man) | MP3 |
| LEC | lehk | MP3 |
| Linux | LIH-nux | MP3 |
| LOB | ell-oh-bee | MP3 |
| LPAR | EL-par | MP3 |
| LU-LU | loo-loo | MP3 |
| mebibyte | MEH-bee-byte | MP3 |
| MIPS | mihps | MP3 |
| MySQL | my-ess-q-el | MP3 |
| NAS | nazz | MP3 |
| NetBEUI | NET-boo-ee | MP3 |
| nuclear | new-klee-er | MP3 |
| OLE | OH-EHL-EE | MP3 |
| OS X | OH-ESS-ten | MP3 |
| parity | PAIR-ih-tee | MP3 |
| PC-cillin | PEE-CEE SIHL-uhn (rhymes with penicillin) | MP3 |
| PEBCAK | PEEB-kak | MP3 |
| PoE | PEE-OH-EEE | MP3 |
| POSIX | PAH-zihcks | MP3 |
| PostgreSQL | post-gree-es-q-el | MP3 |
| QAM | kyoo-ay-ehm | MP3 |
| queue | just like the letter q, "kyoo" | MP3 |
| QWERTY | KWEHR-tee | MP3 |
| RACF | rack-EFF | MP3 |
| Rijndael | RAIN-dahl | MP3 |
| router | rowt-ter (US) or root-ter (UK) | MP3 |
| SaaS | sah-ss, rhymes with "glass" | MP3 |
| SAML | sah-muhl | MP3 |
| SAP | ess-ay-pee | MP3 |
| SAPScript | ess-ay-pee-script | MP3 |
| SATA | SAY-tuh | MP3 |
| schema | SKI-muh | MP3 |
| SFA | ess-eff-ay | MP3 |
| Siebel | SEE-bull | MP3 |
| SIP | sihp | MP3 |
| SOA | soh-ah | MP3 |
| Sophos | SO-fohs | MP3 |
| SQL | ess-q-el or SEE-kwehl (both are used) | MP3 |
| SuSE | sue-sah | MP3 |
| sysop | SISS-op | MP3 |
| UDDI | you-die or ewe-dee-dee-eye | MP3 |
| URL | yew-are-el | MP3 |
| VAR | vahr | MP3 |
| vi | vee-aye | MP3 |
| VoIP | vee-oh-eye-pee | MP3 |
| WAN | wan (rhymes with man) | MP3 |
| wav file | WAVE-file | MP3 |
| WebDAV | WEB-daav | MP3 |
| Wi-Fi | WHY-FY (rhymes with sky) | MP3 |
| Windows Me | WIHN-dohs EHM-EE | MP3 |
| WLAN | double-you-lan | MP3 |
| WSCI | wiz-key | WSCI |
| WSDL | wiz-dull | WSCI |
| WYSIWYG | WIZ-ee-wig | WYSIWYG |
| Xanadu | ZAN-ah-doo | Xanadu |
Contributor(s): Jon Panker, Mark Lewis, Evan Fahey, and Melvin Jafet Vasquez
This was last updated in August 2007
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
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