how do you say it ?

[AUTOMOON]

It is the word------ Pentium,
I can't find it in my dictionary.

This is a easy one for you native speakers, right?

[Casiopea]

It is the word------ Pentium,
I can't find it in my dictionary.

This is a easy one for you native speakers, right?

Pentium, pronounced 'pen-' as in "pencil", '-ti-' as in "tea", and '-um' as in '"gum" or as in "some".

"Pentium" is the name of Intel's i586 micro-processing chip. It's the fifth model in the 80x86 (size) line. It would have been called the 80-586 but a US court ruled that you can't trademark a number. So Intel made up a new word: Pentium.

"Pentium" comes from Greek pente, meaning five, and from English titanium, meaning metalic element, which the Intel staff adopted because it conveyed a meaning of strength:

pentium comes from pente+titanium

The plural of Pentium has been coined as "pentia".

Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2003 Denis Howe

:D

[AUTOMOON]

Thank you for your wonderful posts.

Your immense knowledge of the language, together with your industrious
search on the internet, make you uniquely different from others in this forum.

I just wish I could have somebody like you as my English teacher in real life. :P

[RonBee]

Thank you for your wonderful posts.

Your immense knowledge of the language, together with your industrious
search[es] on the internet, make you uniquely different from others in this forum.

Cas does wonderful work (and she's very smart), but I have also done plenty of Internet searches, as I did to find the link you see below. Thus, her uniqueness does not lie in that area. (Red is probably the best at doing Internet searches. He's a computer whiz.)

• The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/contents.html

I just wish I could have somebody like you as my English teacher in real life. :P

I think I would have liked to have had her as my English teacher also.

:D

P.S. Say: "on this forum"

:)

[Casiopea]

Thank you for your wonderful posts.

Your immense knowledge of the language, together with your industrious
search on the internet, make you uniquely different from others in this forum.

I just wish I could have somebody like you as my English teacher in real life. :P

You're welcome.

Come to Japan! :D

[Hong Kong Chinese]

I never thought that ‘pentium’ has the story behind it and I only know that it is the brand name for CPUs which are manufactured by Intel, the rival competitor of which is AMD, but titanium is very expensive metal.

[Raddox]

I've always pronounced it like "Pentsium" :?
So you're sure there is no s-sound in it?

[RonBee]

Thank you for your wonderful posts.

Your immense knowledge of the language, together with your industrious
search on the internet, make you uniquely different from others in this forum.

I just wish I could have somebody like you as my English teacher in real life. :P

You're welcome.

Come to Japan! :D

After I get to Mount Fuji then where do I go?

:wink:

[AUTOMOON]

Thank you for your wonderful posts.

Your immense knowledge of the language, together with your industrious
search on the internet, make you uniquely different from others in this forum.

I just wish I could have somebody like you as my English teacher in real life. :P

You're welcome.

Come to Japan! :D

Probably it will come true,
but not on me, on one of my friends. :D
She study your language.

[Red5]

I've always pronounced it like "Pentsium" :?
So you're sure there is no s-sound in it?

No, there is no s sound.