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Re:Snow Leopard is a terrible name by cooldude127 on Thursday September 03, 2009 @07:41AM (#802218)
To be fair, you definitely don't pronounce it twice. Then you'd just sound crazy.
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Re:Snow Leopard is a terrible name by ZeroGravitas on Thursday September 03, 2009 @08:20AM (#802276)
Well, you could pronunce the first one as "Ecks" which I think is the obvious, yet officially incorrect, response to someone unaware of the background.
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Re:Snow Leopard is a terrible name by pohl on Thursday September 03, 2009 @09:10AM (#802361)
Even though we're supposed to say 'ten', I'd wager that they plucked the most iconic glyph from the word "NeXT" as a subtle nod to the preceding brand.
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