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"I love the new furry phone"...

Just like DuckDuckGo I think the name will hamper adoption of this.



Have to say, main reason for clicking to check it out was I thought it was a Phone for Furries.

Curiosity got me to look.

Maybe it will drive traffic.


It's "fury phone":

> Furious Support from the FuriOS team


They could say it's pronounced "Wendigo" and people would still read it "Furry".


If people read "fury" as "furry" then that's a literacy problem.


You’re right.

And if you can’t understand why almost everyone will read ‘furi’ as furry and not ‘fury’, then you’ve got a phonics problem.


As someone who reads/watches a lot of Japanese media, "fury" isn't how I would first read "furi".

I do like "FuriOS" and think it avoids this issue, but other portmanteaus might be better avoided.




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