How do YOU pronounce "Read Receipts"?

[Yimbaz]

With iOS 18 right around the corner and plenty of talk about RCS coming with read receipts in tow, I started to notice how many people pronounce the word "read" differently than I do in this context. For any non-English speakers out there, the "read" can be pronounced either as "red" or "reed" depending on how the word is meant to be used. There's no indication which one is correct here (or indeed, if there actually is a "correct" way to say it) so I thought it would make for a fun poll to see how people approach it.

So, how do YOU pronounce "read receipts"?

 

[now i see it]

I’ve read this label hundreds of times but never spoke it and never will. So it’s pronunciation (for me) is meaningless. I guess my mind sees “red”

 

[xxray]

Read receipts indicate whether a person has read the text. So it’s red.

 

[VineRider]

Worked with email for a long time...I've always said reed receipts and have heard it said as reed receipts....as in "did the person reed my email?"

 

[Adora]

I never heard anyone saying this word, but when I read it, I read REED. I never thought it could be the past form although it would be more logical.

Online dictionaries have a function where you can here the pronunciation from several voices and accents.

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This one has four and they all say REED.

Also any assistant like Siri or AI should know it if you ask. I don't use things like that.

 

[CharlesShaw]

Too long didn't reed. 😉 I came in to say red, but I've never heard it spoken and think it should be reed, if spoken. I am pretty sure I heard it in my head as red.

 

[Analog Kid]

I think "read" in this context is a noun, not a verb. Delivery receipt. Payment receipt. Read receipt. In that case I'd pronounce it reed because nouns don't have a past tense.

My grammar is, in general, horrible though so weight this opinion accordingly...

 

[jz0309]

"read receipt" is terribly misleading as it does NOT indicate that your message has been READ, it only indicates that the recipient has opened the app/conversation ... So however you want to pronounce it doesn't really matter

 

[Bandoholic]

I vote reed.

 

[F23]

the correct way is RED. they RED your message. your message has been RED. it's in the past.
REED is actively being read. someone is REEDing the message. REED receipt doesn't go together bc a receipt is time stamping a past event.
when you say you read a book vs are reading a book. it's the same RED vs REED difference.

 

[Adora]

The most important thing about those is disabling them directly after logging in for the first time to any messenger.

 

[Zaydax333]

Oh wow. I've been saying REED all this time. However, RED makes WAY more sense.
Consider me thoroughly bamboozled.

 

[yukari]

Read receipts indicate whether a person has read the text. So it’s red.

My thoughts exactly.

 

[FreakinEurekan]

I use REED. Because the receipt is generated when they read (reed) the message, not after it’s read (red).

 

[VisceralRealist]

I say reed. They're receipts for the read status of the text.

 

[SpotOnT]

Logically it is reed.

A receipt is a record of an active action, not a past action.

Examples: the post office provides a delivery receipt, not a delivered receipt. The bank provides a deposit receipt, not a deposited receipt.

 

[Clix Pix]

It's meant by Apple to indicate that the recipient has not only received but actually READ (pronounced "red") the message:

Send read receipts in Messages on Mac​

You can send read receipts so that people you text know when you’ve read their messages.

 

[platinumaqua]

Using the accessibility option speak item under the pointer, Susan voice pronounced it as the present tense, while Siri voice, Alex, and Victoria pronounced it as the past tense

 

[smirking]

I'm not sure if I understand the question.

Am I supposed to answer in the context of the feature or how I would pronounce it if I saw it spray-painted on a random wall tomorrow? It would change my answer.

I also have the habit of flipping the way I pronounce words and names depending on whatever words came before it. I have a strong tendency to alliterate sounds.

 

[DeltaMac]

I agree with those who say it should correctly be "reed".
AFAIK, the read receipt is generated when you first open the message to reed it, no part of this verifies that you then actually reed, only that you have opened the message so it could be red. I think it is only an assumption that a message is red, when, in fact, it is only opened. I say the correct interpretation is, that you can reed the message, but no one else can assume that you red the message, which makes it a "reed" receipt, not a "red" one.

 

[Nermal]

In an alternate universe I suspect it would be a "view receipt" rather than a "viewed receipt" (a la "purchase receipt" rather than "purchased receipt"). In this universe that'd make it "reed", not "red".

With that said, I'd never actually thought about it until now, but the voice in my head had always used "reed".

Dare I ask how the "Unread" slider in iOS should be pronounced? Is it "unreading" (reed) a message or is it moving it to an "unread" (red) state?

Edit: Backing up to the original question, I know a little Japanese so I had a look to see how Apple had translated it. The word is something like "unseal" (開封) which would indicate the beginning of the reading process ("reed") rather than the completion ("red").

 

[VisceralRealist]

Logically it is reed.

A receipt is a record of an active action, not a past action.

Examples: the post office provides a delivery receipt, not a delivered receipt. The bank provides a deposit receipt, not a deposited receipt.

True. Consider that you can say "receipt of delivery" and "receipt of deposit" (meaning they're nouns). "Receipt of read" sounds a bit weird, unless you mean it in the sense of "receipt of a read" (that a reading has occurred). (Actually "deposit" is similar because it can be both a verb or a noun).

In either case, it's definitely "reed".

 

[iStorm]

"Reed" receipts...which is how it was pronounced during the WWDC event the feature was announced in.

 

[smirking]

You're all wrong, it's pronounced Jason.

 

[nicho]

In an alternate universe I suspect it would be a "view receipt" rather than a "viewed receipt" (a la "purchase receipt" rather than "purchased receipt"). In this universe that'd make it "reed", not "red".

With that said, I'd never actually thought about it until now, but the voice in my head had always used "reed".

Dare I ask how the "Unread" slider in iOS should be pronounced? Is it "unreading" (reed) a message or is it moving it to an "unread" (red) state?

Edit: Backing up to the original question, I know a little Japanese so I had a look to see how Apple had translated it. The word is something like "unseal" (開封) which would indicate the beginning of the reading process ("reed") rather than the completion ("red").

With respect to the slider... the contextual menu option which does the same thing is labelled "Mark as unread". You can't "unread" (un-red) a message but you can mark it as such.

Are you sure about the Japanese for read receipts? It's weirdly inconsistent with the Chinese if that's the case because the phrase used (已读) means "already read" - the 已 character modifies the 读 (which means read) into the past tense, that it has happened already...