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The Speech! allophone-based speech synthesizer software for the BBC Micro was tweaked to pronounce ghoti as fish. [13] Examination of the code reveals the string GHOTI used to identify the special case. In the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game, there is a series of fish-type cards called "Ghoti". [14]
Voila, Brașov, a commune in Romania Voilà, formerly known as AMICUS, is the Union catalog for library materials in Canada. Voilà, a Canadian grocery delivery service owned by Sobeys
The term meme is a shortening (modeled on gene) of mimeme, which comes from Ancient Greek mīmēma (μίμημα; pronounced [míːmɛːma]), meaning 'imitated thing', itself from mimeisthai (μιμεῖσθαι, 'to imitate'), from mimos (μῖμος, 'mime').
The phenomenon of dank memes sprouted a subculture called the "meme market", satirising Wall Street and applying the associated jargon (such as "stocks") to internet memes. Originally started on Reddit as /r/MemeEconomy, users jokingly "buy" or "sell" shares in a meme reflecting opinion on its potential popularity.
Steve Wilhite's slide at the 2013 Webby Awards. The pronunciation of GIF, an acronym for the Graphics Interchange Format, has been disputed since the 1990s.Popularly rendered in English as a one-syllable word, the acronym is most commonly pronounced / ɡ ɪ f / ⓘ (with a hard g as in gift) or / dʒ ɪ f / ⓘ (with a soft g as in gem), differing in the phoneme represented by the letter G.
Ligma joke via text message. The Ligma joke first gained popularity online in July 2018. "Ligma" sounds similar to the words "lick my", and became a sophomoric Internet meme to set up a crude joke. [1]