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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

Twitter -> Xitter [shitter]

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s a Roman numeral for me…

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[–] [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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

@BudgetBandit @samsy, it is not an X, when designing the logo he only thought that by drawing another one at a right angle at each end of the line, it would have been too obvious.