2 Aug
2010
2 Aug
'10
2:33 p.m.
On 2 Aug 2010 at 16:46, Dennis Boone wrote:
Ran across somebody the other day who was surprised
that DEC is often
pronounced "deck".
Was once informed by a friend who worked as a field engineer for the
Maynard Mafia that "Deck" was officially frowned upon; one should
apparently always say "Digital" when in the presence of customers.
I've been surprised at abbreviations that resisted the temptation to
acronym-ize. "RBR" and "RBT" were always pronouced as the letters; I
would have imagined that "rubber" and "robot" would have been used,
but it never came to pass, to the best of my knowledge.
--Chuck