Words are pronounced however people pronounce them, and to insist otherwise is to fight a losing battle. This is why “giff” and “jiff” are equally valid. But for those who care, according to a new Nintendo 3DS game, NES (the classic Nintendo Entertainment System) is pronounced “ness”.
If you've been watching the Olympics, you've probably been hearing commentators talk a lot about Pyeongchang, the South Korean host city. And you've probably been hearing them botch the word.
Say you're looking up the Möbius strip on Wikipedia and you wonder how it's pronounced. Wikipedia only shows some elaborate pronunciation guide written in the International Phonetic Alphabet. You could start googling it in another tab, but there's an easy way to translate that pronunciation guide into plain English. Just hover over the letters.
There are a handful of brand names out there that are commonly mispronounced. A lot of it has to do with a mistranslation between languages, but it's still interesting to learn which brands you might be saying incorrectly. This infographic lays them out.
