I am now watching CNN, and I found that the Apple developers conference is going to be held somewhere in the U. S. I happened to notice that the reporter pronounced OS X like OS EX. I think X should be pronounced “ten.” How do you pronounce I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX and X?
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It’s pronounced Oh Es ten. You are correct. The Roman numbers are pronounced one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Some people might just say X instead. I’m not sure why the reporter pronounced it as “ex.”
I have never thought about it, but as far as I remember, it has always been pronounced OS X, with X sounding like ‘ecks’. I don’t think I have ever heard OS ten.
I think maybe it can go either way- I have always said OS ten.
My chemistry students call question 1 (a) (iii) one a little ey ey ey. They appear to not know what Roman numbers are or how they work. Of course, it shoule be spoken as 1 ay 3 - though I don’t know how to spell letter names in English.
“Louis XIV of France” is pronounced “Louis the Fourteenth of France”.
Am I right?
Yes, you are correct. Henry VIII- Henry the eighth.
Well that doesn’t mean you have to call it OS ten. The funny pronounciation of X could easily be a marketing ploy by Apple. However, this turns out not to be true. I just looked at a couple of Apple promotional videos on YouTube (e.g. Apple introduces mac OS X Maverick's at WWDC - YouTube), and they call it ‘OS ten’ and not ‘OS ecks’.
My brother, who used to work for Apple, insisted it was called “OS Ten”. I still call it “OS Ex” though. If you say “OS Ten” to the average person, they probably won’t know what you’re talking about. If you say “OS Ex” I think they’d be more likely to recognize you’re speaking about the Mac OS.