I read something the other day that told the correct way to say OS "X," but I think it's wrong. Do you say it as "X" or "10?"

its X as in the roman numeral 10, pronounced ten, successor to os9

I say 10 because if you say X - you'll get people confused with Linux and all that crap

it was on the apple website when they first introduced X.0... its pronounced ten. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X

And every Steve Jobs speech about it has him saying OS 10 xD

I guess I just feel cooler saying "X" - that's what I'm sticking with!

If you say OS X Mac people (like me) will smirk at you because you sound like you don't know jack.

Smirk on, my friend.

Smirk on.

Saying OS "Ex" makes me think about sex, which is a pretty good way to ruin what might have otherwise been a productive five minutes.

sex is perfectly productive, its all about exercise. there was a column in some magazine taht said you burn a crapload of calories during sex.

I'd like to know precisely how many, because I was a thin bastard until I moved in with my girlfriend and got engaged :?

i guess its not an exact science..... i hope the same doesnt happen to me :?

X

I would say ex

OS EX Tiger (for example)

Granted, it -is- OS 10, but their versioning is kind of funny..

Mac OS X 10.1.4

Mac OS Ten Ten . One . Four ?

Or is it, Mac OS Ten 1.4?
Or Mac OS Ten Tiger?

or Tiger?

Lovely.

It's Mac OS Ten - (More spacifically) Ten Point One Point Four

OK, so it's missing a comma.


p0wermac

i use both so i voted x, but now that i think about i'm pretty sure i say ten quite a bit more often. however, as a wise robot named bender once said, "the x makes it sound cool!"

i say x too c'mon people this is 2005 no one cares about roman numerals unless you get a enough money to big to fit numbers on the check then that can come in handy but no i say X

I just say OSX which in Hungarian sounds lacks the sexual associations its something like 'oh-ash-eeks the stress on the first syllable. It sonds not so wierd if you are a Hungarian

it is mac os ten point four point one or two. depends on what you have.
mac os 10.1.4 is an very old release. The first useable version i think.
the actual ppc mac version is 10.4.2 ! not 10.1.4
the real mac os 10.0.0 was unuseable slow.

Oh Ess Zehn.

oh ess zehn LOL
naja
oh es iks 10.X

It's on the Mac wiki. It's OS "TEN".

Thank you!

ok then... how do u pronounce linux?

and cache?

never know how to use those two words in real speech lol

1. Lin-ix

2. Cash

pronounce linux as Lye nux but i do say lean nux alot

I definately say OS - EX, It sounds cool!

And i say cashay fro cache for some reason... i am weird! By the way, im English so i have no problem pronouncing words properly.

-=eightballx=-

Lin-ucks

Caysh or cash (I prefer caysh)

As for OS X, I always think of it as it is written, ie. oh es ex, but Steve Jobs says 'oh es ten' and I guess he'd know which is correct

Mac OS Ex ofcourse, sounds much cooler. And i say Lin-Ucks. I mean that what it says right, Linux, it's not like there standing lynux.

Oh yeh i say Lin-Ucks, thats is the way it is said!
Everyone i know says lin-ucks

If it is Mac OS 10 (10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4,.... 10.9) what when it upgrades to Mac OS 11? Will it be Mac OS XI?

How the hell did this poll get so.... wrong?

Jobs himself has stated more times than I care to remember that the correct pronunciation is "Mac OS Ten"

Yes. Take it from me, it's "Mac OS Ten"

Correct.

For anyone that's seen Revolution OS, you know how Linus Torvalds pronounces it, which is, of course, lin-ix, as stated above.

"Cash" is also correct, as can be proven by visiting www.dictionary.com.

I know that some of you are just used to saying "OS EX" and pronouncing Linux and cache incorrectly, but it is wrong to say it any other way.

I used to refer to it as OS-eX, as in 'the Ex-OS', until it hit 10.2, at which point it became marginally usable.

Once it hit Panther, it can be proudly refered to as 'OS 10'.

Besides eliciting smirks from Mac users, you're really just shining the light on your apparent ignorance to simple things, like being able to read latin numerals... Yes, unjustified impression, but no different than considering southern people (US) to be unintelligent.

Your choice, of course.

Neither nor. "NeXTSTEP 6".

OS the tenth. Just like Malcom.

depends on my mood... but usually, I don't say it, I write it (btw, i just voted X as I remember that when I say it in french I always say 10)

Apparently, that is not so. By the way, it doesn't sound cool - it makes you sound, well, uneducated...



Not necessarily wrong - everyone has the right to make a fool of themselves, or to illustrate their level of illiteracy.



Oh, look, Mom, a neanderthal...

LOL i didn't know X means ten in roman, like mac os9 > mac os10
I say Mac OS X (Ex)

hehe I dont care HOW you all say it as long as you dont ever, ever, ever, verbalize "Microsuck" or anything other variant of that garbage.

It's almost as bad as overhearing my younger cousing talking to his friend and then sayings "Jay Kay" (j/k)

I wanted to punch him in the throat

There's nothing wrong with doing that (saying "jay kay"). He was just exploring the functionality of our language. No matter if you consider it "n00b" or stupid.

How did you know? Actually I LIVE down in that Duesseldorf/Wuppertal area.

Wonderful place, even though it is very close to one of Germany's foremost industrial centers.

http://www.planet-wissen.de/pics/IEPics/in...neandertal2.jpg

http://www.geoakademie.de/AGH1_of-Dateien/...nderthal_gr.jpg

http://www.med.uni-duesseldorf.de/ISHE2005...1ObenRechts.jpg

http://butthead.ton.tut.fi/~jukka/suomi/de...tschland_40.jpg

http://butthead.ton.tut.fi/~jukka/suomi/de...tschland_41.jpg

http://butthead.ton.tut.fi/~jukka/suomi/de...tschland_49.jpg

I say OS 10.. but what do I know, I would use Tiger or Jaguar or what ever the code name is but who would know what i mean?
I choke on saying OS 9 cause my other computer uses the real OS 9. that one confuses me.

Sure, there might be nothing wrong with it, but I still would have liked to hit him

Microsuck Windows

(offtopic)

I say OS X ("ex") and everyone I've ever known has said it OS X ("ex")... I had never ever heard it called OS "10" before reading this topic =P

jeez, i had no idea i was wrong about calling it os x... everyone i've ever met has called it that, dang. and

http://www.safalra.com/science/linguistics...nustorvalds.mp3

I think the reason they used roman numeral X (10) is because it looked cool. For the real smart people out there it appealed to them because it was a classic way of thinking the "old" way of seeing numbers. for others they think hey that LOOKS cool but I know what it means cause I used OS 9. And then there are people who didnt even know there was an OS 9 and just say HEY that is a cool sounding name. OS X (as in the letter). I think it is just super smart advertising. They got it together with the advertising. So if they call it OS 10 then so it is when verbalized BUT when written out it just looks damn cool to call it OS X. See? Smart guys those marketing people are in Cupertino.

I say Mac OS X 10.4.2 Tiger, for exemple
(Mac OS ex ten dot four dot two Tiger)