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Re: Poll: How do you pronounce 68K CPUs?
« on: January 20, 2012, 01:01:40 PM »
Quote from: Matt_H;676638
I call them oh-three-oh (or sixty-eight oh-three-oh, if I'm feeling formal), but I'm curious to hear what others say :)

Obviously there will be some linguistic differences due to the many countries represented here. Please share pronunciations in your local language, too!


I go with:

Generic:
Sixty-Eight-Kay

Shorthand:
Oh-three-oh (etc)

Formal:
Six-Eight-Oh-Three-Oh

but then I'm weird...
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Re: Poll: How do you pronounce 68K CPUs?
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2012, 01:03:49 PM »
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So it looks like the Germans and the Americans do the "20, 30" etc, and the Brits do the "oh X oh".

Silly british. :D


Silly? Pfah. The rest of the world drives on the wrong side of the road and you call us silly? ;-)
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Re: Poll: How do you pronounce 68K CPUs?
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2012, 01:06:04 PM »
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I call the 68000, six eight thousand.


Do you precede it with "Pennsylvania [pause]..."? :D
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