Businesses go to great lengths to find the right names for their brands and products — ones that are full of symbolism, cutesy references, or some mysterious connection to history or mythology. But many of us are pronouncing those names all wrong. Take these five brand names, for example: 1. Asus: Is it ay-soos? Ah-soose? Ay-suss? Nope. The company changed the correct, official version a few years ago from ah-seuss to ay-seuss, which has only caused more confusion. 2. Xiaomi: The correct version of this one is shao-me. Think of it as show (as in “shower”) plus me. Xi-ah-oh-me, za-yo-mi, and shao-mee...
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