How do you pronounce IT?

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Note: In writing, many style editors prefer that the spelled-out version of a term should be used in the first written occurrence of a term in an article (for example, "wireless local area network (WLAN)" instead of just "WLAN" or even "wireless LAN"). Thereafter, the abbreviated form can be used.

In pronouncing an abbreviation or reading it aloud, the pronouncer may want to convert the abbreviation into the long form for the understanding of a listener (for example, reading "wireless LAN" for "WLAN").

TERM	PRONUNCIATION
	eight-oh-two-dot-eleven
	ah-bop
ACL	aye-cee-el or aye-kull
	AY-pahr
	ASK-ee
	BAH- pee
	bay-ah-woolf
	cash
	KA-nahn-nihk-uhl-ih-ZAY-shun
	kicks or cee-eye-cee-ess
	cleck or cee-leck
COMMAREA	COM -area
	DEE-mon or DAY-mon
	DAY-tuh
DOS	doss
	EHB-suh-dik
	fack or eff-ay-q
Freethem.K	free-thum-KAY (do not pronounce the dot)
	fud
gibibyte	GIH-bee-bite
	giff (with a hard "g" as in goat) or jiff (as in the peanut butter)
	GUH-nome or nome (rhymes with home)
	grahk
	GOO-ee
	GUH-new or new
	het-ter-o-GENE-ee-us
	HIP-puh
IDS	eye-dee-ess
IPsec	EYE-pee-sec
	EYE-scuzzy
	EYE-TEE
	jay-TWO-ee-ee or, by some, jah-TOO-ee
	k-tie
Kerberos	KERR-berr-ross
	KAY-lock
	lan (rhymes with man)
	EL-par
	lehk
	LIH-nux
	ell-oh-bee
LU-LU	loo-loo
mebibyte	MEH-bee-byte
	mihps
MySQL	my-ess-q-el
	NET-boo-ee
(in Windows)	OH-EHL-EE
	OH-ESS-ten
	PAIR-i-tee
PC-cillin	PEE-CEE SIHL-uhn (rhymes with penicillin)
	PEEB-kak
	PAH-zihcks
PostgreSQL	post-gree-es-q-el
	kew-ay-ehm
	Q
QWERTY	KWEHR-tee
	rack-EFF
Rijndael	RAIN-dahl
	rowt-ter (US) or root-ter (UK)
SAML	sah-muhl
	ess-ay-pee
SAPScript	sap-script
	SKI-muh
	ess-eff-ay
Siebel	SEE bull
Sophos	SO-fohs
	ess-q-el or SEE-kwehl (both are used)
	su-zee
	SISS-op
	U-die or ewe-dee-dee-eye
	yew-are-el
	vahr
	vee-aye
	vee-oh-eye-pee
	wan (rhymes with man)
wav file	WAVE-file
	WEB-daav
	WY-FY (rhymes with sky)
	WIHN-dohs EHM-EE
	double-you-lan
WSCI	wiz-key
WSDL	wiz-dull
	WIZ-ee-wig
	ZAN-ah-doo

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