Hong Kiat: “Please on your Sky-pee.”
Caker: “What Sky-pee? It’s called Skype without ‘pee’ lah!”
Hong Kiat: “The whole world call it Sky-pee lah!”
Caker: “There’s a feature in Skype called ‘SkypeOut’, doesn’t it sound weird when you pronounce it as ‘Sky-pee-Out’?”
Hong Kiat: “……”
Caker: “Alright, let’s google it!”
OK, found this from Skype website.
How do you pronounce the word Skype?
Skype rhymes with ripe and type.
Source: Skype Help
So, go screw those people who ever tried to correct you by telling you that the word Skype was pronounced as “Sky-pee”!
Yes, I already screwed Hong Kiat the TECH Blogger, hahahahaha……
PAWN3D
SO TRUE!!!
Why do they keep calling it SKY-PEE?!?!?
try asking hongkiat how to pronounce wikipedia. he will say wai-kee-pidia.
haha this is so true i’ve met tons of people that pronounce it as HongKiat and when i refer them to that exact statement on the site they just “…..”
I have heard numerous people pronouncing it as ’sky pee’. I wonder if they pronounce ‘ride’ as ‘ri-deh’. But heck, people might think that, since it’s something techy, it gotta sound something special right?
hahaha, even the PPL selling hardware one at lowyat also read SKYPE..
People say sky-pee, I say sky-pee lor.
As long as i deliver my message over.
You really particular la.
monkey see monkey do. hahahahaa.. since when ppl say sky-pee?
eh.. vios.. the vi is pronouced like viking or vinegar?
NB!! im oso guilty….i oso tot its sky-pee cos thats wat i was first told…pui!
Sky-pee-Out… this is real funny!!!
haha.. icic.. But sky-pee sound more interesting & country-wide.
i also call it sky-pee, but when i join my company, they call it skype. when i told them sky-pee, they look like not understand…
I had some Taiwanese colleagues previously and all of them call it Sky-pee. That was the first time I heard it as such. But I’ve always hated it. Skype sounds so much better.
Funny thing is, russians, when they read english, the read it as russian translit (I’m not talking about these who actually learn english), meaning they read each letter as it would sound in russian alphabet, so a word “merge” they pronounce as (use only capital letters) Milk tEle Road Good tEle (мерге). But when it comes to Skype, they say it as “Sky-p”, no “pee” (скайп)…
So, go figure…
Sky-pee… Pee from the Sky?
Hey it’s raining…