if iremember right, the mp3 format was developed in 1994.

do any of you who say "war-ez" call your games "gam-ez".....didn't think so

*sigh*

:right:

I only meant how it's pronounced, not the origin, which wasn't the point of this thread anyways. so sigh me a river 87P

LOL @ "in the know"

I think I'm going to just kill myself now...............

Simply w-a-r-e-z

JUAREZ





Just to stir up crap, and give my gay way of saying it. :cheeky: :cheeky:

yeah.. its wear-ez



dictionary = wrong.



i made the word up.



im right.

u pronounce warez



copy-right infringe-ment

Wat is that phonetically? I cant work out how thats ment to sound!

wares



used and said in the same context as:



The customer looked over the shopkeeper's wares and decided he didnt want anything.

w



then



ar as in the brit way of saying arse



then



ez as in the old stylee pez sweets, or fez hat.

hehe, dazz is trying to cause trouble



this thread is funny.



i think it's like this WAH-airs, emphasize the WAH.

:cheeky: :cheeky:

If you think about it it's quite easy to figure out how it's pronouced (or should be).



Think about 'software, freeware, shareware';

they are all pronounced 'Soft - Ware', 'Free - Ware' etc...

and 'Ware' sounds like Wear



Warez evolved from Ware (the end of those words)...



as usual the l337 internet gurus shoved a 'Z' at the end (instead of an S) to make it sound l337.



Hence the word 'Warez'



Thus concluding that Warez is pronounced "Wears"

I call it wars

before I knew that warez was softwares

when I saw irc chat rooms with the names warez I though it was where people hung out and had little internet wars sitting in chat rooms nukeing each other

I didn't go near those since I didn't want to get nuked



but now I know

Haven't you ever heard the expression "Peddling your wares?" pronounced wears. Same kinda thing for softwarez. The Z is just to be kool. I used to call it war - ez though.

NO! its pronounced..."who gives a $hit..just call it whatever you want!"

that is quite possibly the funniest thing i've heard all day

its pronounces war/ez there ya go

wears...

as freeza said i think.. its prounounced "wears" thats how i would say it in real life...

I truly wonder where you guys get this "Soft*warez*" stuff from. Is there some sort of documentation or somthing?







How do you know?!



Dispite how its pronounced, you guys are just pulling this out of your ___. As far as im concerned there is no correct way to say it. If you wanna be truly correct then use that wierd dictionary definition.. "weirz"

lol Faction



is that New Zealand for Warez?

This is a stupid argument.

P.S Its pronounced "wares". Keldyn has spoken.......:roll:

:cheeky:

LMAO



It's official though, just check out www.dictionary.com



Weirz d00dz! :cheeky:



Edit: I've just thought about it for a second, it's not a New Zealander pronunciation as I originally thought.



Theirs - Weirz, so effectively it is Ware-z.

lol, yep aco





So the question now is how do you pronounce Weirz?





lol, Weirz d00dz

http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=warez%20d00dz

wayrss!

the word is pronounced as 'wears'...

this is why:



the word came from the word software (as someone mentioned here already)

so we have:



The word 'software' got a 'z' at the end like some of us use the word 'gamez' instead of 'games'...



So then we have the word 'softwarez'... Well now its easy... how do you pronounce the word 'softwarez' Then try saying it by cutting down the 'soft-' so what do you have there? 'warez' = 'wears'

My friend called it Wos

lol what a ***

LOL

But I come from England and that automatically gives me the right to be eccentric and call it whatever I want, therefore juarez

I don't pronounce, I just download... :bandit:

yes thats the way to go:bandit:

you're right on that...:bandit: :evil:

Goddamnit! :mad:



Somebody make a poll in the poll section!



Lets just vote about it!

We don't need one.



All the 1337 people already know it's pronounced like wears.

I agree!

hehe my freinds pronounced it "Woz" heh though they changed soon after.

Well then, i hope you slapped them silly.

i think it should b pronounced as "wahz"

soundz kinda funny huhz...

I just call it "freebies".

ok u ppl are dumb (ppl who who pronouce it below are not )



WAREZ IS PRONOUNCED WEARS ALSO CAN BE PRONOUCED AS WARES









let us all end the topic right here

The word "warez" comes from the word "wares", pronounced the same way(except for the "z").

Like Software, Hardware, Warehouse and so on.

Actually, the word warez came from the Latin(o) word for theiving *******s - Juarez therefore I am correct :roll: :cheeky:







It's just someone's pronuciation, I think I might start a thread about the way Americans pronounce tomato (too-mah-toe if you're a brit )

now THAT is the funniest thing I've read all day

get a life people

just call it whatever you want, but if you want others to understand what you're saying, just pronounce it as WEARS.