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question from Mr I Pod
My friend and i have entered a friendly wager and need help with the answer to a simple question, which is: the up-to-the -minute gizmo of the moment is the I-Pod, but how is it pronounced? I say that it is obviously pronounced ippod, but my friend (who is foolhardy and slight build) says that it is clearly eyepod.
An interesting conundrum isn’t it, but who is right?
An interesting conundrum isn’t it, but who is right?
Your foolhardy friend is clearly an ignorant fool, not to mention a cad and a bounder. However, you too sir are also without ground in your assumptions of pronunciation. Thus your wager is for naught, and all the friendliness in the world will not stop a swift and final degradation of your relationship.
For heed my words, you are both wrong. A more lenient man than I would give you, Mr Pod, the benefit of the doubt. But in my mind, there is so much wisdom that not a neuron is free for such misgivings.
Those people you see, with their contraptions of the Apple, carry upon their persons one and all: The ip’d.