How do you pronounce IT?

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Note: In writing, many style editors prefer that the spelled-out version of a term should be used in the first written occurrence of a term in an article (for example, "wireless local area network (WLAN)" instead of just "WLAN" or even "wireless LAN"). Thereafter, the abbreviated form can be used.

In pronouncing an abbreviation or reading it aloud, the pronouncer may want to convert the abbreviation into the long form for the understanding of a listener (for example, reading "wireless LAN" for "WLAN").

TERM PRONUNCIATION
802.11 eight-oh-two-dot-eleven
ABAP ah-bop
ACL aye-cee-el or aye-kull
APAR AY-pahr
ASCII ASK-ee
BAPI BAH- pee
Beowulf bay-ah-woolf
cache cash
canonicalization KA-nahn-nihk-uhl-ih-ZAY-shun
CICS kicks or cee-eye-cee-ess
CLEC cleck or cee-leck
COMMAREA COM -area
daemon DEE-mon or DAY-mon
data DAY-tuh
DOS doss
EBCDIC EHB-suh-dik
FAQ fack or eff-ay-q
Freethem.K free-thum-KAY (do not pronounce the dot)
FUD fud
gibibyte GIH-bee-bite
GIF giff (with a hard "g" as in goat) or jiff (as in the peanut butter)
GNOME GUH-nome or nome (rhymes with home)
grok grahk
GUI GOO-ee
GNU GUH-new or new
heterogeneous het-ter-o-GENE-ee-us
HIPAA HIP-puh
IDS eye-dee-ess
IPsec EYE-pee-sec
iSCSI EYE-scuzzy
IT EYE-TEE
J2EE jay-TWO-ee-ee or, by some, jah-TOO-ee
keitai k-tie
Kerberos KERR-berr-ross
KLOC KAY-lock
LAN lan (rhymes with man)
LPAR EL-par
LEC lehk
Linux LIH-nux
LOB ell-oh-bee
LU-LU loo-loo
mebibyte MEH-bee-byte
MIPS mihps
MySQL my-ess-q-el
NetBEUI NET-boo-ee
OLE (in Windows) OH-EHL-EE
OS X OH-ESS-ten
parity PAIR-i-tee
PC-cillin PEE-CEE SIHL-uhn (rhymes with penicillin)
PEBCAK PEEB-kak
PoE P - O - E (say the letters).
POSIX PAH-zihcks
PostgreSQL post-gree-es-q-el
QAM kew-ay-ehm
queue Q
QWERTY KWEHR-tee
RACF rack-EFF
Rijndael RAIN-dahl
router rowt-ter (US) or root-ter (UK)
SAML sah-muhl
SAP ess-ay-pee
SAPScript sap-script
schema SKI-muh
SFA ess-eff-ay
Siebel SEE bull
Sophos SO-fohs
SQL ess-q-el or SEE-kwehl (both are used)
SuSE su-zee
sysop SISS-op
UDDI U-die or ewe-dee-dee-eye
URL yew-are-el
VAR vahr
vi vee-aye
VoIP vee-oh-eye-pee
WAN wan (rhymes with man)
wav file WAVE-file
WebDAV WEB-daav
Wi-Fi WY-FY (rhymes with sky)
Windows Me WIHN-dohs EHM-EE
WLAN double-you-lan
WSCI wiz-key
WSDL wiz-dull
WYSIWYG WIZ-ee-wig
Xanadu ZAN-ah-doo


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