30 Jul
2010
30 Jul
'10
1:52 p.m.
From: Ethan Dicks
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 1:20 PM
On 7/30/10, Tony Duell <ard at
p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> One of my "hobbies" (some might call
it an obsession) is figuring a
>> way to pronounce any given acronym as a word....
> :-)
> I've been know to refer to the 5150 as the
'I-Bum Puck' :-). The first
> 'I' is short --'e' not 'eye' as I pronounce it...
Here, I've heard "Ih-bem Peck" (same
'i' sound you describe), but it
was usually used in a less-than-flattering context.
OK, putting on my pedant hat, I have to point out that "acronym" is
defined as "an abbreviation which is pronounceable as a word". That is,
acronyms are a proper subset of the set of abbreviations, and pronouncing
them is easy.
What you guys are talking about is the set of all abbreviations, not the
set of acronyms.
<sigh>Doffing pedant hat now.
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Server Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98104
mailto:RichA at vulcan.com
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