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Old 05-07-2003, 07:26 AM   #1 (permalink)
darkure
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Mis-pronouncing names

In this storry at the Register, they say that one reaon for Infogrames changing their name to Atari is:
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It's probably had enough of people mis-pronouncing its name as 'Infogames'.
I have found myself doing this very thing sometimes. It also happens with other terms. I sometimes call the new Pentium mobile CPU 'Bananas' instead of 'Banias.' I know people who say 'Ath-a-lon' rather than 'Athlon.'

So I was wondering what some of the other common mis-pronounciations?
(You don't have to stick with computers those are just the examples that came to mind.)
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