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by remarkEon 3156 days ago
>The iPhone X (pronounced “ten,” not as in X-ray)...

Do people really not know Roman Numerals anymore?
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joefourier 3156 days ago
Lack of an iPhone IX might have confused some. And plenty of people pronounced "OS X" as the letter "x", and in that case there was an actual Mac OS 9 to justify the jump from 9 to 10.
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exogen 3156 days ago
I'll look it up on my Moto X.
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krallja 3155 days ago
it’s pronounced “decem”, not “ten.”
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