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[–] BudgetBandit 90 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Just pronounce it like we would pronounce a Chinese name, where the X are pronounced sh

Twitter -> Xitter [shitter]

[–] HolidayGreed 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s a Roman numeral for me…

  • Ten-Men
  • SpaceTen
  • The Ten Factor
  • Tenbox Series Ten
  • Mac OS Ten
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Although Mac OS X was used as a roman numeral when it first launched. It lost all meaning when they added the code names to it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's only called macOS for almost 7 years

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Indeed. I was just referring to the years it was OS X

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