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20050207 Monday February 07, 2005
How do you pronounce VOIP? Computers

VOIP While watching the Superbowl I heard a commercial for "Business VOIP." The annoucer pronouced VOIP as a word, "voip", rhyming (sort of) with John Voight. That was the first time I've heard that term pronounced like that. I've always read that in my head as "voice over IP" or spelled out V-O-I-P. Voip, as a word, just sounds funny to me. In English, nothing even sounds like voip, as evidenced by my lame John Voight rhyme.

Am I off in the weeds on this one? Does everyone else say "voip" but me? I still say U-R-L instead of "earl" and V-I instead of "vi" because I'm just not that lazy. At least on those, I know that I'm not alone.
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