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== Other ==
=== Advertising ===
* Sony's ''U R Not {{color|red|e}}'' ads for the Playstation.▼
* The Famous, (and often parodied) I♥NY T-shirts▼
** Leading to the infamous I ✈ NY shirt▼
*** And plenty of other X ♥ Y merchandise as well. Sometimes parodied with other playing card suits, as in I ♠ My Cat or I ♣ Baby Seals.▼
=== Anime and Manga ===
* In ''[[K-On!]]'', the two names Mio suggests for their band are "Chocolate ☆ Melody" and "Pure ☆ Pure". (Curiously, she suggested them purely vocally, so one might wonder if she just said "hoshi" or "suta" in a way that made it clear that she intended the symbol rather than the word... or just accept that it's manga, so if it can be printed, you just pretend that they can say it somehow.)
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** The official dub calls it ''When They {{color|red|C}}ry''.
** ''Higurashi Day{{color|red|b}}reak'' by Tasogare Frontier: The b is officially off-color, although the color depends on the material - if the rest of the text is white, the b is normally black, but if the rest of the text is black, the b is red. Spelled in Japanese, the "bu" (ブ) is treated the same way.
* The revisions to ''[[Guilty Gear|Guilty Gear XX]]'' generally had strange names: "Guilty Gear XX ♯Reload" (pronounced "Sharp Reload"), "Guilty Gear XX/" ("Slash") and "Guilty Gear XX Λ Core" ("Accent Core"). Even the "XX" part of the title is actually pronounced "Igzex".▼
* [[Tetris|TET]]Я[[Tetris|IS]], of course.▼
=== Real Life ===
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*** [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|£ido$]] gets a double whammy of the dollar sign and the pound symbol.
* The now-defunct British satellite channel L!ve TV.
* The computer programming languages C++ ([https://web.archive.org/web/20110926063620/http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq.html#name pronounced "see plus plus"]; "++" means "increment by 1" in it<ref>on numeric primitives; due to operator overloading you can never be sure what it will do on any custom type</ref> and its predecessor C, so C++ means "C incremented"<ref>or, for extra pedantry, return the value of C and then increment it - perhaps a subtle nod at its fairly large degree of backwards compatibility?</ref>) and C# ("see sharp", despite actually using a pound sign, which is subtly different from a musical sharp symbol, which has led to its nickname "D flat", or Db)▼
** Well, "see octothorpe" doesn't roll off the tongue.▼
** Made even worse by the fact that Я is a Russian letter ''and'' word (meaning "I" or "myself"). It's like the English "I", which is a letter by
* The Bittorrent client "μTorrent", which we're supposed to pronounce "uTorrent". Geek options: muTorrent for the linguistics geek; microTorrent for the science geek.▼
* The Swedish feminist party (which didn't ''quite'' take off in the 2006 elections, and now hasn't been heard from in a while) chose "F¡" for their symbol. It was, of course, impossible to stop the party's detractors from reading it as "Fi", which is the traditional Swedish military abbreviation for "enemy" ("fiende" in Swedish).▼
=== '''UNSORTED''' ===
▲* The revisions to ''[[Guilty Gear|Guilty Gear XX]]'' generally had strange names: "Guilty Gear XX ♯Reload" (pronounced "Sharp Reload"), "Guilty Gear XX/" ("Slash") and "Guilty Gear XX Λ Core" ("Accent Core"). Even the "XX" part of the title is actually pronounced "Igzex".
▲* Sony's ''U R Not {{color|red|e}}'' ads for the Playstation.
* Parodied in ''[[The Middleman]]'' with the super-addictive !!!!. Yes the drink is called !!!!. It is pronounced by stamping your foot and doing jazz hands.
* There's a ''[[Lost]]'' episode called "?" This refers to something specific in the plot, but was also so named in tribute to the episode's intended director, Darren Aronofsky, who directed the movie ''π'' (that's ''[[Pi]]'', of course). Aronofsky had to bow out of the episode, but the title remained.
▲* The computer programming languages C++ ([https://web.archive.org/web/20110926063620/http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq.html#name pronounced "see plus plus"]; "++" means "increment by 1" in it<ref>on numeric primitives; due to operator overloading you can never be sure what it will do on any custom type</ref> and its predecessor C, so C++ means "C incremented"<ref>or, for extra pedantry, return the value of C and then increment it - perhaps a subtle nod at its fairly large degree of backwards compatibility?</ref>) and C# ("see sharp", despite actually using a pound sign, which is subtly different from a musical sharp symbol, which has led to its nickname "D flat", or Db)
▲** Well, "see octothorpe" doesn't roll off the tongue.
▲* [[Tetris|TET]]Я[[Tetris|IS]], of course.
▲* And Toys 'Я' Us
▲** And [[Korn|KoЯN]]
▲** Made even worse by the fact that Я is a Russian letter ''and'' word (meaning "I" or "myself"). It's like the English "I", which is a letter by its self and a pronoun as well. So basically it's saying "Toys I Us".
▲* The Famous, (and often parodied) I♥NY T-shirts
▲** Leading to the infamous I ✈ NY shirt
▲*** And plenty of other X ♥ Y merchandise as well. Sometimes parodied with other playing card suits, as in I ♠ My Cat or I ♣ Baby Seals.
▲* {{color|blue|House}} [[House of Leaves|of Leaves]].
* While presumably pronounced "slant," the science fiction novel / is somewhat disorientingly titled, particularly since it's uncertain that ''is'' the title unless you look at the copyright page (which for clarity's sake describes the situation rather than simply putting a / on the page.)
▲* The Bittorrent client "μTorrent", which we're supposed to pronounce "uTorrent". Geek options: muTorrent for the linguistics geek; microTorrent for the science geek.
▲* The Swedish feminist party (which didn't ''quite'' take off in the 2006 elections, and now hasn't been heard from in a while) chose "F¡" for their symbol. It was, of course, impossible to stop the party's detractors from reading it as "Fi", which is the traditional Swedish military abbreviation for "enemy" ("fiende" in Swedish).
* The [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=coexist%20bumper%20sticker&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi Coexist] bumper sticker, which comes in many variations.
* The ¥€$ currency in ''[[Ghost in the Shell]]''.
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* BT's ''THЭSЭ HOPЭFUL MACHINЭS'' album.
* Sasha's ''Invol2ver'' mix compilation.
* [[Earth Star Voyager|
* [[Acclaim|A<<laim]].
* The [[Wii]]. A homophone for "we", and the i's represent two people.
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** [[You Have to Have Jews|g0yim?]]
** To be perfectly clear, g0ys do identify as bi- or homosexual, but "reject" the term "gay" because of its association with anal sex; gay - a(nal) = g0y. Their website is so hateful to non-g0y gays that even someone who agrees with the basic ideals of the g0y movement could be repulsed.
* ''[[Rebuild of Evangelion]]''{{'}}s English titles use the format ''You VERB (Not) X''. Yes, "not" is in parentheses.
* ''[[Amorphous]]+''.
* Some [[Autechre]] songs, such as "90101-5|-|" (pipe dash pipe?) and "O=0"
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