Eye Fone Ten or Eye Fone Ex? Find Out How To Say iPhone X And Other Tech Terms

Common tech terms are said a few thousand times a day all over the world but not many people know how to pronounce them correctly. So here we go through some of them:

iOS

Most people will say this word correctly like this eye-oh-ess. But there are a small number of others who feel more familiar with this pronunciation eye-oss.

Apple staff and exes call it eye-oh-ess. In WWDC 2011, the legendary Steve Jobs called it that way and other Apple’s employees did the same during keynotes.

There might be another way to pronoun iOS and other tech terms where you live and people except it in day-today conversation, but if you say the word in a conversation with another person not from your community, he or she might have a hard time understand you.

So whatever you call it, remember the correct pronunciation is eye-oh-ess.

Verdict: "Eye-oh-ess"

Sudo

In an informal survey conducted on Linux.org, the majority of respondents, 77.6%, say it as sue-doh or sue-dough. The rest calls it sue-doo or sue-due.

Since Sudo is not a common and trademarked name like Apple’s products, there is no 100% consensus over how to pronounce it. In this case, feel free to call it whatever you want. But if you are curious over how its creators called it, here is the answer. Robert Coggeshall, one of the people invented the command, say the word as sue-doo.

Verdict: "Sue-doo"

Linux

There are lots of debates over this one, but lucky for us, we have a video with Linus Torvalds, its creator, saying the word himself:

Verdict: "Lih-nux"

Mac OS X And iPhone X

We have heard people called it Mac Oh-Ess Ex and others say Mac Oh-Ess Ten. The word iPhone X is in the same situation. For all we know, the pronunciation iPhone Ex seems to overwhelm others.

As for other tech terms, people in the same community tends to call it in their own way and there is nothing wrong with that. People tend to be more divided with these two terms than they do with iOS.

However, if you want to find out what Apple calls them, the easiest way is to find a video with the company’s staff talking about it and you will know.

In 2000 Macworld San Francisco, Steve Jobs said it like this Mac Oh Ess Ten. In the event to launch the first iPhone with Face ID, Tim Cook called it iPhone Ten.

Verdict: Mac Oh Ess Ten and Eye Fone Ten

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