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It looks like a silly question :-) How do we pronounce AJAX? (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML)

ayacks if you are European :-)

I hear it as A-Jacks.  (I say A-J-A-X real fast.)

Watch "Troy" and you'll know.

"Eh-Jacks" if your Canadian ! :)

Try to pronounce it like AJAX Amsterdam.

More seriously though, I alternate between

ayacks, as in the city
and AyJacks

on a sidenote, one of my pet peeves is people who refer to the RAF as the Rafff. It will always be the R-A-F.

Maybe we should stick to A-J-A-X given that it is an acronym ... of sorts

Hmm..

How do you pronounce the 'A' in "Asynchronous"
How do you pronounce the 'J' in "JavaScript"
How do you pronounce the 'A' in "And"
How do you pronounce the 'X' in "XML"

..put it all together and you get..."Luxury Yacht"

It's been pronounced "remote scripting" for half a decade now...

Don't they make a cleanser for scrubbing bathtubs?

Just use the easier to pronounce title "This year's kool aid".

I say be the ultimate nerd and have a recording of one of the self appointed Web 2.0 gurus saying it and put that one your web site.  You know, how the linux wankers have a recording of Linus pronouncing linux.

It's pronounced "Hype"

dee - ech - tee - em -el

In Elizabethan times, 'Ajax' was pronounced 'a jakes'.

My preferred pronunciation is like the football club, because it makes people go 'huh?'

ee-it-sucks

I can't believe there is a thread on this.

I pronounce it just like you pronounce the name of the cleaner.