NVIDIA stock makes headlines regularly, but do you know how to pronounce the company's name? Did Jeff Bezos evoke his own name “Bee-Zos”, “Bee-Zos”, bees in “Bay-Zos” like Baywatch or “Bezz-os” such as the first part rhyme with Pez Candy? What about Huawei?
Here is a primer list of more than a dozen technical terms and how they are pronounced.
ios: The simplest bunch, right? This is just saying three characters individually, “eye”, “oh” and “ess”. Apple supports this whenever someone like CEO Tim Cook mentions the operating system at every Apple event. Still, some people insist on saying “Eye-Ohs” or “eyes” as if O and S are not separate syllables.
Nvidia: This may seem simple, but it is easy to make mistakes. Is it “en-vi-dee-uh” or “vid-ee-uh?” CEO Jensen Huang called his company “Wudi Festival” when he said “God, I love Nvidia!” 15 minutes in this keynote video, so we will continue to use it.
Jeff Bezos: The Washington Post solved the problem in 2013 through a video of the Amazon founder himself. This is “Bay z”. You are alone with “Jeff”.
How do you pronounce the last name of Jeff Bezos? The Amazon founder is rich enough to buy many pronunciations.
Claude: Is Anthropic's AI model called “clod”, such as “prod” or “cloud”, just like a place you can't see again in the file you put? The answer is somewhere in the middle, and the company's CEO Dario Amodei stretched out the vowel during a CNBC interview to make it sound more like a “claw” like what could happen to the lucky toy in the claw machine.
Huawei: The Chinese tech makers' names are usually pronounced as “Wah-way”, but if you really want to make it sound like CEO Ren Zhengfei said, you need to throw a little H-Sund on the top, but keep it on two syllables: “Hwah-way”.
SQL: The initialism of structured query languages (as pronouns for databases) should be pronounced like three letters: “ess”, “hint” and “ell”. However, many insist on referring to it with the initial pronunciation of the “sequel”, although there aren't 2 of them.
Balatro: We love this addictive card game, but not everyone who plays it knows the name comes from the Latin language of the Joker. Polygon even asked the game's developers how to pronounce titles. Spoiler: They don't actually know. Latin pronunciation: “bah-lah-trow” is correct.
Sundar Pichai: With the help of Anjalee Kemlani of Yahoo Finance, the CEO of Alphabet name is easy. In the Tiktok video, she breaks it down into: “Looking your eyes very quickly.”
ubisoft: CEO Yves Guillemot called the video game company “Yoo-Bee-Soft” instead of “Oo-Bee-Soft.”
Random parrot: The term has become increasingly common due to its relationship to AI. It refers to a language model that does not understand the meaning behind the language they use, like a parrot. The first word has a hard “k” sound and is pronounced as “stuh-kass-tick” and rhymes with “sarcastic”.
XæA-12: According to Musk himself in the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and musician Grimes' first child's name is pronounced as “What's the previous twelve.” Grimes and Musk have two more children, and Musk himself has at least 12 children.
GIF: Very well, you let us grasp this, which is the acronym for the graphical exchange format. Steve Wilhite, the creator of the format, said it was “jif” like peanut butter, but after decades of debate, people insisted on using hard g. We say that choosing yourself in this respect, everyone will know what you mean in the right environment.
