GMAIL (pronounced jee-mayl) Apparently someone, somewhere, thought folks might mispronounce it as “guh-mayl”, “jem-ail”, or possibly just “mayl”, as with the “silent g” in “gnome”. Or maybe foreign students might try “guh-mah-eel”. I don’t know. But I find the pronunciation tip asinine. I mean, really.
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2 Comments posted on "Jee-Mayl"
trineant on April 30th, 2008 at 6:40 PM #
Wonder if how you found it out… lol PS: its a joy to read your blog!
The Cubelodyte on September 4th, 2008 at 1:34 PM #
And if you think about it further, the quasi-phonetic spelling could be misinterpreted by some foreign types as “yee-mail”. |
More hilarity from one of the campus IT websites: A link to Google’s mail service.