Netiqqquettee IQ Blog 12/19//2019 7 words you're definitely pronouncing wrong

7 words you're definitely pronouncing wrong November 26, 2019 2 min read  With words borrowed from myriad sources and root languages, along with some plain old made-up words, English pronunciation rules aren’t really rules. You can try to sound out words phonetically, but you’re just as likely to be wrong as you are right. Sometimes you only know words from reading, and you’ve never heard the correct pronunciation. Be proud of that! It means you’re well read. Below are ten commonly mispronounced words in English; some are older, some are new, and some are extremely British. Please enjoy! Chicanery Chicanery means “the use of trickery to achieve some purpose.” It is mistakenly pronounced “chi-CAN-er-ee,” however, the correct pronunciation is “shi-CAHN-er-ee.” It’s a tricky word to describe tricks! Prerogative This word, meaning “the right or privilege exclusive to an individual,” is often mispronounced by forgetting the first R, turning the word into “PER-og-a-tive.” When speaking it, be sure to pronounce the first syllable. Pronounce that prer- like the word prayer. “PRAYER-og-a-tive” Kilometer Americans often pronounce this empirical measurement as “kil-AW-meh-ter.” This, unfortunately, is not correct. The correct pronunciation is “kill-oh-mee-ter,” with no special emphasis put on any of the syllables. This is also a very British pronunciation. Zoology All the O’s in this one can make pronunciation confusing. You’ve got the word zoo, which you know how to pronounce. But what about the -logy? This suffix changes the pronunciation of the word. You break up the first two O’s into two separate syllables: “zoh-AWL-uh-jee.” Boatswain Here’s another very British one. A boatswain is a member of a ship’s crew — the person in charge of equipment and crew. This word looks like it would be pronounced as two separate words, boat and then swain. But a sailor would look at you in confusion. It’s actually pronounced as “BOH-sun,” dropping out the T and the W. Solder Soldering is the act of bringing metal pieces together with a low-heat metal alloy through higher heat. It looks easy enough to pronounce, right? But it’s another word where the pronunciation doesn’t match the spelling. Your first instinct might be to pronounce it as “soul-der,” but the L is silent. The correct pronunciation is “SOD-er.” Viscount You might not have much cause to use this word, but the pronunciation is interesting anyway. A viscount is a lord, ranking above a baron and below an earl. It looks like it should be pronounced as “VISS-count.” However with this British aristocratic rank, the S is silent, and instead it should be pronounced “VIGH-count”. Now you can read those period romance novels with the correct pronunciation.

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Air gapping is a security measure that involves physically isolating a computer or network to prevent it from connecting directly or wirelessly to other systems that can connect to the Internet. Air gapping is used to protect many types of critical systems, including those that support the stock market, the military, the government and industrial power industries. To prevent unauthorized data extrusion through electromagnetic or electronic exploits, there must be a specified amount of space between the air-gapped system and outside walls and between its wires and the wires for other technical equipment. In the United States, the U.S. National Security Agency TEMPEST project provides best practices for using air gaps as a security measure. For a system with extremely sensitive data, a Faraday cage can be used to prevent electromagnetic radiation (EMR) escaping from the air-gapped equipment. Although such measures may seem extreme, van Eck phreaking can be used to intercept data such as key strokes or screen images from demodulated EMR waves, using special equipment from some distance away. Other proof-of-concept (POC) attacks for air- gapped systems have shown that electromagnetic emanations from infected sound cards on isolated computers can be exploited and continuous wave irradiation can be used to reflect and gather information from isolated screens, keyboards and other computer components. As of this writing, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is awarding grants for prototype hardware and software designs that will keep sensitive data physically isolated. The grants are made possible under the Guaranteed Architecture for Physical Security (GAPS) program. Enhancing air-gapped security measures The problem with physical separation as a security technique is that, as complexity increases in some system or network to be isolated, so does the likelihood that some unknown or unauthorized external connection will arise. Perhaps the most important way to protect a computing device or network from an air gap attack is through end user security awareness training. The infamous Stuxnet worm, which was designed to attack air-gapped industrial control systems, is thought to have been introduced by infected thumb drives found by employees or obtained as free giveaways. The software-defined perimeter (SDP) framework is another tool network engineers can use to create a type of "virtual air gapping" through policy enforcement. SDP requires external endpoints that want to access internal infrastructure to comply with authentication policies and ensures that only authenticated systems can see internal IP addresses.

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