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DR BOLT BONUS FILE!!
|1-How The Fuck Do You Say That?
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A common problem with pooty users comunicating by post/email/magazines
is that you never know how to pronouce those silly names people give to
computer stuff. So here is my opinion/guesses how to say stuff.
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|1-AMIGA
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Erm you should have picked that one up by know. It's usually said
"A-meee-gah" "A-meee-ger" or "Ahh-meee-gah". So now you know.
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|1-A1200
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Most people decided to call it the "A-twelve-hundred" when it first came
out, mainly because "one-thousand-two-hundred" is a bit of a gob full.
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|1-PCMCIA
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I've heard clever people saying "Pee-cee-my-cah" which is probably
right, but I just say "Picker-micker-jobby"
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|1-SCSI
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Just pronounced "Scuzzy"
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|1-GIF
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A lot people incorrectly pronounce this with a hard "G" as in "gift",
but I have an ancient doc somewhere introducing the format when it first
came out, and they make it clear it should be pronounced "jif", as in
"New Jif with bleach", so there.
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|1-JPEG/MPEG
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No argument here, it's simply "Jay-peg" or "Em-peg"
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|1-IMAGINE
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As in the raytracer. I'm not sure on this one. I say "Imer-gin" but its
probably pronounced like the word for thinking stuff up "I-madge-in"
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|1-SCALA
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I thought this was "Scay-la", but its actually supposed to be "Scar-la"
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|1-AMINET
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Mr MÜller (Prounounced as in "MÜller" Rice?) says most english speakers
call it "Amy-net" where as germans and the like say "Ah-mee-net"
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|1-AGA
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Everyone says "Ay-jee-ay". Beware of anyone who pronouces it "Ar-ga"
because they will be trying to flog you an expensive combined
oven/central heating unit.
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|1-MINER
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As in Jay Miner, who invented the Amiga. Pronounced "My-nur" like a
bloke who digs coal and shit.
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|1-MUI
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Not to sure on this one, but I sort of murmour "myou-ee" but others
pronounce the initials "Em-You-Eye"
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|1-VISTA
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I used to say "Vee-stah" for some reason, but its meant to be "Vist-ah"
I think.
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|1-TWAT
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As in "The Word Article Tester". I'm not sure on this one, but I just
pronounce it "Tee-Double-You-Ay-Tee" Unfortunately its a bit of a
mouthfull. Could you not have come with a snappier title eh Freak?
If you have any further pronunciation queries, then just send them to Dr
Bolt!
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|2-END!
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