How do you say...

Me:

Jiff

meem

both

why-fy

neither- I say Lee-Nux

Cashay

How 'bout you?

• Magic
• م
• daataa
• Whyfye?
• Line-uks
• Cash-ay

• gif (I think)
• Me-me (frankly, I was watching the Grantland NBA preview with Jalen Rose and he said "meem" and I had never heard anyone referred to it like that but I guess that's a thing).
• day-tuh (close to dat-uh in Spanish).
• why-fy (wee-fee in Spanish).
• lie-nux (Lee-Nux in Spanish)
• cash-ay in both English and Spanish.

• ghif
• meem
• both for data
• why-fy
• linn ux
• cache

never heard of anyone called it "me-me", only older people who dont know what it is and the read the word for the first time. Everyone by know tho knows its "meem" (meme), like 4 years ago its was new to people, but now everyone knows what memes are so everyone pronounces it meem.

You keep saying "Spanish", so im guessing you live in a spanish speaking country and the people around you are people like you who their first language (or most likely their only language is spanish) and are reading/using English words, but there isnt anyone there to tell them how to say them right.

I seen alot of none english speaking latinos just read english words as they would read them in the spanish format - Wifi read as Wee fee, Gif read as Hif (in spanish the "G" goes soft if its followed by "e" or "i", sounding like "H". Example: Giraffe, spelled "Giraffa" in spanish is pronounce "Hiraffa" )

.

ghif (even though I know it's supposed to be jiff)

meem

day-tuh

why-fy

neither...I use lee-nux

cash

I have never, in my life heard someone say "wee-fee" for wi-fi.

i have but its from non-english speakers who are unaware that its supposed to be wifi. Never heard an english speake called it weefee tho, same for meme

Nengo what are you talking about? Didn't you say a while back you were Puerto Rican? I live in PR. Anyways.

As far as the "meme" thing goes, thinking about it, in Spanish it is "me-me" so like I totally keep it in that pronunciation in my consciousness when thinking in English. But I could have sworn every single time I heard it before it was pronounced "me-me" which is why I was so surprise when Jalen Rose said "meem".

Now, I watch something like 99% English speaking stuff (mostly radio in Spanish) so the possibility of me seldomly hearing the pronunciation "meem" are incredibly low. Now, you could characterize my TV viewing habits perhaps skewing toward the traditional:

• Comedies (Seinfeld, King of Queens, Fresh Prince, Everybody Loves Raymond, Family Guy, Louie, Big Bang Theory).
• News (and even then there is plenty of younger guys I watch like MSNBC's The Cycle or The Young Turks).
• Sports (think about announcers).
• Movies (ok that doesn't quite fit depending on the movie).

I find this fascinating. I will try to make a mental note of every time someones says "me-me" or "meem".

ghif

meem

day-tuh

why-fy

linn-ux

cash

gif, not jiff

meem

day-tuh, but it's closer to day-duh the way i say it

why-fy

linn ux

cash

yeah............. ?

And since i am Puerto Rican i know first hand that Puerto Ricans in PR, although exposed to the enlish language and american culture often, also ten to use english words wrong or say them wrong. Sometimes we pronounced them right, sometimes we butchered the shit out of them cuz we dont all know actual english.

People from south america tho (who are less exposed to english and american stuff)... the tent to take/read every enlgish word literally in a spanish format (which comes out very wrong).

Jraf

ME ME

Data

Whif

Lenny

Chach

Guyfff

Meem

Dat-uh

Why fhy

Lin ex

Catsu

Genie? =P

why?

Cash-ay? Wtf? =D

ghif
meem
day-tuh
why-fy
linn-ux
caysh

Apparently I've been saying cache wrong...

where did you get "Kay-sh" from?

I understand some people saying "cash" and what most people say "cashay", but Kay-sh?

jiff
meem
day-tuh
why-fy
linn-ux
cash-ay

gif

meem

یه ایرانیه دیگه ؟! نه؟

• Ghif
• Me-me
• day-tuh
• why-fy
• linnux
• cash

Now the question is, is there a unique correct pronunciation ?

@elkoldo: I'm sure there is, if you ask the creators of the words. Like for Gif, the creator said it's pronounced Jif.

Gif (Like gift only without the "t")

Me-me

Day-duh

Why-fy

Lin-nux

cash (Used to pronounce it as Cash-ay but started using only cash after hearing it so much from others)

Honestly man, I'm not persian. But yea, I get what you mean.

The way you referred meme to م made me almost certain that you were Iranian. Anyway, you do understand Farsi.

Just a few words, my mother tongue is basically Urdu which is a mash up of Farsi, Arabic, Sanskrit or you name it.

You're asking for the impossible...I don't even know who created most of these stuff...let alone finding and asking them "Hey Mr.I-don't-know-who , would you kindly tell me the correct pronunciation of your weird word ?"

lol so you can find quite a bit of any given language in Urdu ?!

umm.............. the creator has come out several times over the years and confirmed that is pronounced Jiff.

He did it again when he was awarded some achievement award a last year

I'll even link you to it bro http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/22/tech/web/pronounce-gif/

yeah, at least Eastern languages for sure. But the dialect is Arabic.

I've never heard anyone say it wee-fee.

Yeah but gif is only one of such words. What I'm saying is that there are hell of a lot more words like this, and you can't meet all the creators !

• ghif
• me-me
• day-tuh
• why-fy
• linn-ux
• I say both sometimes.

@thegerg: No I got a wonderful reason for that one.Me-me, in terms of pronunciation, is pretty close to ma-me, which is Persian for tity! :P

How do I say it? My answer:

gif, not jiff

meem

day-tuh,

]why-fy

linn ux

cash-ay

jiff

meem

datuh

why-fy

neither I guess as I say lienex. Not sure if this "u" indicates an uh sound as in bus.

cash. who the **** says cash-ay

Ghif

Meem (it's supposed to be inspired by the word gene, right?)

Dah-ta (every so often, my Australian accent wins out)

Why-fy (it's short for wireless fidelity, isn't it?)

Linnux

Kaysh (that's the official dictionary way of pronouncing it in Australia - but only when the word is used in the context of computers

ghif

me me

i actually say dat ah in my language

wee-fee

linnux

cash

why pronounce something that it isn't :P?

You saved me writing that out :)

+1

@MlauTheDaft: Happy to be of service.

There is only one way to pronounce those words:

Jiff

Meem

Day-Tuh

Why-Fy

Linn-Ux

Cash-ay

For the people who pronounce it cash-ay...how do you pronounce cachet?

"Catch it".

Interesting. Do you also pronounce it that way for words like ballet? You pronounce it ball/bell-it?