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[marrec]

Did you not notice that it has a 'Z' on the end? It's not "Where's" I don't care what wikipedia says.

Everything remotely internet hacker related that normally had an "s" was changed to a "z" in the 90s because it was EXTREME! *guitar riff*

We were really stupid back then.

 

[MercuryLS]

I'm lmao at the responses, im glad I wasn't the only dumbass to pronounce it wrong.

 

[Angelus Errare]

Sounds like a place to ilegally download Titan A.E a decade ago.

lol

 

[Octavia]

Whenever it gets brought up I read it as Ware--Ezz. Not wares. I like my version better.

 

[Fatalah]

Nobody in the 90s pronounced it where-ez! At least, not where I was.

I did!

 

[RumblingRosco]

It is and always has been "wears" and I'm quite surprised to find so many here didn't know that. Y'all need to step up your 90s internet slang.

 

[MrBS]

I did!

*fist bump*

90s flash backs. Time to go watch some Fresh Prince.

 

[ZackieChan]

I did the same, OP. Don't listen to these haterz.

 

[marrec]

*fist bump*

90s flash backs. Time to go watch some Fresh Prince.

Fr-ez-h Prince?

 

[LeleSocho]

Yeah i'm guilty of that too, to be honest i didn't even knew what wares meant as English is not my first language so i couldn't ever make the connection.

 

[eBay Huckster]

i always thought it was pronounced like "juarez" just because of that damn Z

 

[IISANDERII]

Wars

 

[CosmicQueso]

How do you pronounce meme?

Me-Me... like Mimi's Cafe. Or something Beaker would say. Right?

 

[temp]

I always read it in my mind as "Juárez." Me as a kid thought, Juárez is a place in Mexico where a lot of illegal drug stuff is shopped around, so it's like the Juárez of the Internet.

Then I forgot about the word for 15 years until right now when I learned I was wrong.

 

[besada]

Next if we can just discover the pronunciation of filez and serialz.

 

[Marty Chinn]

Next if we can just discover the pronunciation of filez and serialz.

It's pronounced fil-layz right?

 

[Lord Error]

lol @ lamerz in this thread.

 

[Ran rp]

me-mez

 

[marrec]

Next if we can just discover the pronunciation of filez and serialz.

Pills and Surreal

 

[old manatee]

Damn warez is a blast from the past. I remember people pronouncing it Juarez and it used to make me crazy. Like when people pronounce gif as jif. Fucking noobs.

 

[temp]

Me-Me... like Mimi's Cafe. Or something Beaker would say. Right?

"Meem," my man. "Meem."

 

[The Albatross]

People have never heard of Warez? Jesus I'm old.

I always pronounced it like wear-ez or wears because I thought it was a shorthand for softwarez.

For those who dobt know, Warez was what you called illegally downloaded software in the 90s and early 2000s. I don't know why it had a different name.

 

[commedieu]

I thought he was a political prisoner.

 

[Tesseract]

Me-Me... like Mimi's Cafe. Or something Beaker would say. Right?

meem

 

[shacklesmcgee]

soft-warez

 

[sixteen-bit]

How do you pronounce meme?

leh epic may-may

 

[Sectorseven]

Why would you pronounce it like "Juárez?" I don't get how that word makes any sense in context.

 

[Pinko Marx]

Honestly always have pronounced it Juarez myself.

 

[shacklesmcgee]

leh epic may-may

denk may-mays

 

[a secret-boss]

Always pronounced it as wares but end with zzz

 

[Epsilon-delta]

Where's the warez mang.

 

[VideoMan]

lol @ lamerz in this thread.

They're not krad like us.

 

[Rembrandt]

How do you pronounce meme?

this is an important question.

i thought you meant it wasn't pronounced like wares because i never thought people pronounced it like juarez.

 

[theepicoftyler]

It's one of those words I came across be never knew the context for so I pronounced it wrong. I am a fool.

 

[Daingurse]

Huh, I actually pronounce this one right.

 

[poppabk]

Your whole life? As in you continued to use the word warez past the 90s. You may have bigger problems than your pronunciation.

 

[kamakazi5]

I have always said warez because of its spelling.

I pronounce meme like the mem in memory. The other pronunciations sound terrible to my ears.

 

[Dr.Acula]

D00d, j00 kno dat 1337 warez BBS? R U some pwned n00b?

 

[kendrid]

warez the beef

This is perfect. SoftWAREZ - warez. Like warez the beef.

 

[Air Zombie Meat]

Never knew people made that mistake. Now that I do I feel a little angry about it.

 

[Junior Mint]

Plz vote for my site on the top 100 warez sites web ring for free access to my ISO ftp

 

[yogloo]

How do we pronounce mp3?
Mmm-p?

 

[Zoe]

Fucking noobs.

I will always think of this as newbie despite knowing people say it as newb.

 

[BadAss2961]

I pronounced it the same way in my head for a very long time. One day I thought about it for a second and just realized the wordplay on my own.

 

[manipulate]

u g0t 0wn3d

ph34r h4x0rz

 

[Enron]

warez? Is it 2001?

 

[Thursday War]

i came in this thread expecting that it not be pronounced like "wheres" lol

.

op is drunk

 

[Acorn]

How do we pronounce mp3?
Mmm-p?

Mmm bop 3*

 

[Mononoke]

In my head it's always been pronounced like "where's". Can't fathom the "Juarez" pronunciation, wow.

Same.

Never even considered it would be Juarez. Success? Lol

 

[Bronetta]

Call of Warez: Vocabularyslinger