Seriously? It’s not a word I would deem obscure at all. I don’t exactly hang with Ivy League intellectuals, for the most part, and it comes up every so often, usually in a phrase like “I can’t believe he/she had the audacity to…” I mean, hell, it’s on Urban Dictionary, which tends to be a repository for colloquialisms rather than obscure vocabulary.
I imagine the creators of the software were familiar with the word and didn’t just scan the dictionary looking for a snazzy title.
A. Cite? What you think, deduce or suppose in your noggin are not facts.
B. George HW Bush left office in 1993. Not very many people had email or internet access unless you were in the government or higher education. Private home computers and internet were not the norm of the day. Cell phones existed, but most people didn’t have them.
C. Let’s do a vocabulary building exercise for you. Look up the words Tedious and Asshat. For that last one you might need http://www.urbandictionary.com
I have no difficulty believing this. 
This is creeping up to the insulting line- please refrain in this forum.
Maybe I’m just obtuse. But I’ll ask anyway …
Are you suggesting the software company pronounces their product “auda-city”? If not, then what are you saying? Color me confused.
Come over here…
Why, just the other day I heard someone say they were going to eat an Apple! Did you know there’s also a fruit called that!?
That is soooo 2006! :rolleyes:
I was confused at that, too. I’ve never heard anyone pronounce “Audacity” the software as anything other than how “audacity” the word is.
I use the word audacity when it’s the right word to use. Doesn’t seem like a word that is limited to vocabulary snobs.
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Given the word ‘software’ in the title, and as a regular use of said software, I gave ‘audacity’ that interpretation. But I’m also a regular use of ‘audacious!’, though not so much of ‘audacity’. The latter tends to suggest, as aceplace57 says, pompous snobbish. The former I use as an appreciation of intrepid boldness. That said, I use a lot of words that baffle a lot of people…
What’s with the fancy words, professor? Words like “jerkish” and “so-you’re-Mr. Big-Pants” are too plebeian for you?
And does anyone have any information about Obama’s podcasts in the early 2000s?
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