30 Jul
2010
30 Jul
'10
1:20 p.m.
On 7/30/10, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
Here, I've heard "Ih-bem Peck" (same 'i' sound you describe), but
it
was usually used in a less-than-flattering context.
The most gratuitous example of this I can recall is the Sesame Street
character Big Bird attempting to pronounce the 26-letter Western
alphabet as a single word
("ab-cer-def-gee-jeckle-mernop-kur-stoov-wik-siz" -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC%E2%80%93DEF%E2%80%93GHI)
-ethan
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...