How do you pronounce 'xor'?

[neutralizer]

I was talking about gates for a design class to my roommate and I hastily said 'zore' rather than 'ex-or'. He corrected me and found pronouncing it 'zore' as incorrect and ridiculous. Personally, I think 'ex-or' is the proper pronunciation, but 'zore' just rolls off the tongue easier.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Kck-sur, with the two syllables blended quickly.

 

[So]

ex-or.

 

[Evadman]

x like a letter and 'or'.

 

[Shawn]

as in r0x0rs my b0x0rs?

rocks-ers my box-ers.

 

[Shawn]

or sex0rs would be sexers.

 

[pennylane]

ex-or

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

ksor (short k), so basically instead of 'ex-or' just 'xor'

 

[DanFungus]

ex-or

 

[TuxDave]

Exclusive Or
X or (pronounced ex-or)

 

[Howard]

ecksore

 

[NaOH]

I just say exclusive or

 

[Captante]

I believe in most cases "X" is pronounced as "Z" in english, unless of course its a proper name in which case you can say it any way you choose!

Example: Xylophone


Edit: My answer to the OP would be closest to zore

 

[hzl eyed grl]

I don't believe I know what xor means or is, but I agree with Captante in that in most cases "X" is pronounced "Z".

 

[Special K]

ex-or, since it's short for exclusive or.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: Captante
I believe in most cases "X" is pronounced as "Z" in english, unless of course its a proper name in which case you can say it any way you choose!

Example: Xylophone


Edit: My answer to the OP would be closest to zore

The 'x' in "xor" comes from "exclusive[ly] or", so I don't think that would apply in this case.

Originally posted by: Special K
ex-or, since it's short for exclusive or.

I hate you.

 

[DanTMWTMP]

I never use the short term..it's always Exclusive-Or for me...at I heard non of my peers say it otherwise...

just put in "Exclusive-Or" as one of the answers. I won't answer this poll otherwise.

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: hzl eyed grl
I don't believe I know what xor means or is, but I agree with Captante in that in most cases "X" is pronounced "Z".

xor is short for exclusive, its a boolean operator that takes 2 arguments it basically means that only 1 of the arguments can and has to be true


1 xor 0 == true
0 xor 1 == true
0 xor 0 == false
1 xor 1 == false

follow?

 

[Ameesh]

oh and its pronounced ex-or, not zore

 

[hzl eyed grl]

Originally posted by: Special K
ex-or, since it's short for exclusive or.

Pardon my ignorance, but what is this regarding? A sale or something?

 

[Special K]

Originally posted by: hzl eyed grl

Originally posted by: Special K
ex-or, since it's short for exclusive or.

Pardon my ignorance, but what is this regarding? A sale or something?

It's a type of digital logic circuit.

 

[Captante]

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: Captante
I believe in most cases "X" is pronounced as "Z" in english, unless of course its a proper name in which case you can say it any way you choose!

Example: Xylophone


Edit: My answer to the OP would be closest to zore

The 'x' in "xor" comes from "exclusive[ly] or", so I don't think that would apply in this case.

Originally posted by: Special K
ex-or, since it's short for exclusive or.

I hate you.

If XOR is in fact a proper name or an abbreviation for one, then you would be correct.

This is what Urban dictionary had to contribute.

Heres Websters take.


Edit: And it even has its own Wiki!

 

[hzl eyed grl]

Originally posted by: Ameesh
oh and its pronounced ex-or, not zore

Sorry, I didn't see your explanation before I asked.

 

[neutralizer]

Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
I never use the short term..it's always Exclusive-Or for me...at I heard non of my peers say it otherwise...

just put in "Exclusive-Or" as one of the answers. I won't answer this poll otherwise.

Pronouncing it fully is a lot of work. What if you were reading a lot of code or something that had a lot of xor's.

 

[kedlav]

We always used zore in Logic and Math (Ohio State).