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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 :s

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

but now I know :D

Originally posted by fr33k

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 :s

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

but now I know :D

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

Originally posted by sphere

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

Originally posted by sphere

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

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"

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