Leds or Ellie Dees?

[loopstick]

The Light Emitting Diode (LED). How do you pronounce "LED"? Is it "Led" as in Led Zeppelin? Or do you pronounce the individual letters as in Ellie Dee?

 

[stereofanboy]

Individual letters.

 

[loopstick]

Thanks for your votes. I'll vote myself once we get a mix of results.

 

[moewillis]

its not a lead (pb) light its an L.E.D. light

 

[AdamAnt316]

Light Emitting Diodes, so L-E-Ds.

 

[Mitkraft]

Is it even a question? Pronouncing led as in "led light" is just wrong.

 

[Dude111]

I call them L.E.D.s (As in led zepplin) and I hate them!!!! (The letters)

 

[Oozure]

I voted L.E.D. (Ellie Dee). I'm American, so that might be the problem. I know Australians and English pronounce it as Led. Both are acceptable in my opinion.

 

[peerson]

If I was having a new baby girl, I would name her Ellie Dee

 

[teal'c]

You don't pronounce it, you spell it.

 

[Alobar]

LED, Ellie Dee. Does anyone seriously call them lead? Maybe the 2 who voted otherwise represent the plus or minus 3% error rate in the general population that most polls seem to have.

 

[loopstick]

LED, Ellie Dee. Does anyone seriously call them lead? Maybe the 2 who voted otherwise represent the plus or minus 3% error rate in the general population that most polls seem to have.

They don't come up in conversation that often but I once heard a hobbyist type guy pronounce it "led" and the morning before the poll I listened / watched a streamed technology show in which the two hosts - old time radio technology guys - were talking about a new toy in the studio. It was some expensive piece of modern gear and they called the L-E-D's "leds".

Acronym (radar, led) or initials (L-E-D)? I think the reason the acronym version never caught on was that it was easily confused with the metal or pencil graphite.