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TIL Apple's Siri means "beautiful woman who leads you to victory" in Norwegian and was named by Dag Kittalaus. Steve Jobs didn't like it, but couldn't come up with something better. It's also shorthand for "Speech Interpretation and Recognition Interface".

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