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Pronunciation of "via(s)"
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Monkeh:

--- Quote from: TimFox on October 18, 2020, 01:50:27 am ---Now that that is settled, I would never dictate to citizens of another country how they should pronounce their language.

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And as soon as you stop calling it English... ;)
oPossum:

--- Quote from: Monkeh on October 18, 2020, 02:15:43 am ---And as soon as you stop calling it English... ;)

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You speak British, Scottish, and Irish

We speak English
Monkeh:

--- Quote from: oPossum on October 18, 2020, 02:22:00 am ---
--- Quote from: Monkeh on October 18, 2020, 02:15:43 am ---And as soon as you stop calling it English... ;)

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You speak British, Scottish, and Irish

We speak English

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No love for the Welsh I see. That's okay, they're used to it.
VK3DRB:

--- Quote from: TimFox on October 15, 2020, 02:20:09 pm ---In the US, I have heard only the pronunciation "VEE-AH".

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Same here. I use US-centric pronunciations for technology. Some newbies in Australia pronounce them "V-EYE-AHS".

Young players new to technology in Australia (especially the media) pronounce the word data as "DARTA", whereas more experienced people here use the US pronunciation "DAYTA". To my knowledge, back in the 1970's and 80's, no-one pronounced data as "DARTA". I suspect the oddball pronunciation was spawned by someone in the media here and newbies knew no better.

Same with the word hacker. Twisted by the media and adopted by politicians and unsuspecting newbies - thanks to a stupid 1995 movie called "Hackers". I have been a full-on hacker for 45 years. And will continue to hack.
Ed.Kloonk:

--- Quote from: VK3DRB on October 18, 2020, 02:37:36 am ---
--- Quote from: TimFox on October 15, 2020, 02:20:09 pm ---In the US, I have heard only the pronunciation "VEE-AH".

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Same here. I use US-centric pronunciations for technology. Some newbies in Australia pronounce them "V-EYE-AHS".

Young players new to technology in Australia (especially the media) pronounce the word data as "DARTA", whereas more experienced people here use the US pronunciation "DAYTA". To my knowledge, back in the 1970's and 80's, no-one pronounced data as "DARTA". I suspect the oddball pronunciation was spawned by someone in the media here and newbies knew no better.

Same with the word hacker. Twisted by the media and adopted by politicians and unsuspecting newbies - thanks to a stupid 1995 movie called "Hackers". I have been a full-on hacker for 45 years. And will continue to hack.

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Some 'hackers' were annoyed that the term 'crackers' wasn't used in that context.
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