What is the Correct Way to Pronounce Meme?

One of the latest trends on the internet is the creation and sharing of memes. If you have spent even a short amount of time online, you will have definitely come across one.

The addition of captions to photographs of animals or humans, graphical drawings or just words themselves about random life events, very often becomes comical and spreads all over the world.

These cleverly designed concepts are everywhere. Memes. But how do you pronounce meme?

Historically, a meme was a 'bundle of information' that travelled by word of mouth. Typically, it was a mesmerizing story, a joke, a fable or an expression of speech. Our use of them today is still common, yet today memes travel so much faster than speech alone.

Memes are shared via the internet. On a forwarded email, via instant messages and through social media. In the same way that a flu bug can travel from individual to individual, memes travel online.

Taking the form of photographs, videos and the simple written word, they can tell jokes, philosophical ideas worth repeating, urban legends and human and animal oddities.

They are very straight to the point and cleverly relate to people all over the world. This makes them popular for sharing on social networking sites and popular amongst pinners on Pinterest.

Unless you come up with an idea yourself, the Internet is full of websites that allow you to generate a meme from a range of available images, or you can share those already created by members of the public. Just be aware of the terms and conditions of some of these sites.

Some of the most popular sites to use are

• Someecards
• Quickmeme.com

The key to successful internet memes is the way in which they can be provide humor and also have a level of shock-value. These grab people's attention and get shared all the more.

The all important question still remains however.

The answer is very simple.

“Meme” rhymes with “team”.