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Lv 7

How do you pronounce LED?

When talking about a light-emitting diode, how do you personally pronounce the acronym LED?

1. Each letter separately, as in ELL-EE-DEE.

2. As one word LED, rhyming with bed and sounding like the toxic soft metal lead.

3. I never use the acronym and always say all the words light-emitting diode.

4. Something else (please describe), or variable between the first 3 depending on the context of the conversation or however the wordy noises fall out of my face at that moment.

Note that I might cross-post this in the "Words & Wordplay" and/or the electronics or science categories if there isn't enough response here in the Polls section.

Update:

Shara: I wrote out ELL-EE-DEE as a phonetic description of the pronunciation of those individual letters L E D.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Number 1.

  • fizixx
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    1. Each letter separately, as in ELL-EE-DEE

    It is never pronounced as a whole word, other than what it stands for [light-emitting diode]. If you were talking to techies and saying 'led'...as in 'lead', they'd think you're nuts.

  • John
    Lv 6
    7 years ago

    I pronounce each letter separately. As in ELL-EE-DEE

  • shara
    Lv 4
    7 years ago

    Number 1. Exept When I say it I think of it as L-E-D not ELL-EE-DEE

  • 7 years ago

    Ell-ee-dee. Who says led??

  • 7 years ago

    Light Emitting Diode, referred to us in the electronics industry as either spelled out letter by letter or as pronounced (sounds the same as the soft toxic metal) Either way is fine with us.

    Source(s): Professional RF (radio frequency) engineer.
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