I left my regular laptop at work, so for this post in my week of video posts I recorded straight to YouTube using my old laptop.
(If you have not watched Michael Wesch and his students’ insightful exploration of what it means to upload to YouTube from your webcam it is worth checking it out: Wesch, M. (2008, July 26). An anthropological introduction to YouTube. Library of Congress. Retrieved fromhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU&feature=youtube_gdata_player )
Today I do what could not be done with regular blogging – share how I think common library tech tools are pronounced. I wonder whether I got them all right… Zotero, Libguides, GNU, Omeka, LibX – how do you pronounce them?
Post number 20 for #blogjune 2011.
I have to agree with you, Kathryn, on almost every point: Zotero, LibGuides, LibX, GNU (I like the silent G too) and I resist the American “cellular” – they are MOBILE phones to me. I think there are probably a few ways to say “Omeka”, but the one that I take exception to is “pronounciation” …. there is no such word!!!!!!!!
Nice post, though, and great to HEAR a librarian-blogger, too. And take NO notice of the upstarts in electrical stores, because they will use any trick to try to make themselves sound more technically proficient: they will try to confuse you by speaking in technobabble. If they stop talking long enough to realise you know a thing or two, they will try to undermine you by sowing seeds of doubt – using a term differently, changing a pronunciation, talking about an upgrade you’ve never heard of, or making you think your information is SO out of date … after all, they are salesmen!
If we don’t call it a MY-FY, what on earth do we call it, a meeee-feee? (I call it a My-Fy, by the way)
At MPOW don’t have LybGuides, it’s definitely lib (like ‘lip’).
I say Guh-nuu, O-may-ka, Zoh-tay-ro and LibX (not Lyb-x)… (can we do audio comments? 😉 )
This reminds me of the Greek myths I used to read as a child. Because I didn’t hear the names, I used to think Hercules was Her-cyools. The first time I heard Her-cyoo-leees, I couldn’t think who on earth that was!
Now you’ve got me humming the old Flanders and Swann song with the line “I’m a g-nu, a g-nother g-nu”… so I have no problem with the G!