ID Software - Eye D or HID?

spoffle · 20 Aug 2016 at 00:41

The I is always lower case, so it's not actually an acronym or initialism.

Mujja · 20 Aug 2016 at 00:54

Ah!, just checked the website, I was going by the thread title and what others have typed.

hyperseven · 20 Aug 2016 at 01:28

a bit off topic but only recently I found out that a QI charger, the QI is actually pronounced 'chi' or 'chu', bloody bonkers :eek:

dont get me stared on Huawei....

Digital X · 20 Aug 2016 at 01:35

Eye D. Just sounds right.

V F · 20 Aug 2016 at 03:16

Gimpymoo said:
ACE-ERS or ASOOZ?

I have even heard ASSES

I'm still so shocked with that one.

Flubble · 20 Aug 2016 at 08:36

Mujja said:
Always read it as Eye-D.

If it's "Id" then why is the D a capital making is an acronym?

it's not a capital D it's "id Software"

i've always said eye-d

Punt · 20 Aug 2016 at 13:46

Seanspeed said:
'id', same as you'd pronounce 'solid'

antijoke · 20 Aug 2016 at 14:04

It's just id, not eye D or HID.

shankly1985 · 20 Aug 2016 at 15:51

anticonscience said:
It's just id, not eye D or HID.

But how do you say it then?

Random Guy Esq. · 20 Aug 2016 at 16:12

Exactly like the word "id".

Reed · 20 Aug 2016 at 16:49

Always pronounced it solID

neoboy · 20 Aug 2016 at 16:49

Asrock still makes me giggle every time I pronounce it in my head.

modo77 · 20 Aug 2016 at 16:57

Its id as in Freud.

Randomface74 · 20 Aug 2016 at 16:59

Title is wrong, the company name is "id Software". So I'd say id as in solid.

Aka id as in id...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego_and_super-ego

Punt · 20 Aug 2016 at 19:15

Seanspeed said:
'id', same as you'd pronounce 'solid'.

Punt said:
This. Is it not from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego_and_super-ego#Id

billysielu said:
Aka id as in id...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego_and_super-ego

Déjà vu

At least I'm not the only one!