Pronouncing acronyms (was Re: DEC acronyms)

2 Aug 2010

...
   I have been
known to pronouch 'CRT' as 'Crut'.

 But oddly, I almost never pronouce LED as 'led'. It's always 'Ell Eee 
 Dee' (or 'Lima Echo Delta' if I am being more silly than normal :-))  
   "Ristiss", "See Are Tee", and "Ell Eee Dee" for me.

Oh, it's normally 'C - R - T' (3 separate letter names) round here too. 
But 'Crut' is one way to pronounce it. I don't normally do that, but...

Analogure to Digital Converter(ADC)  is always 'Aye Dee Cee', but digital to 
analogue converter (DAC) is pronounced as a word -- 'Dack'.

Other ones (at least as I pronounce them)...

DACK (Data Acknowledge/DMA Acknowledge) is normally pronounced as a word..

DTACK (Data Transfer Acknoledge -- 6800 bus signal) is 'Dee-Tack'

The column address signal CAS/ on a DRAM is always 'CAS-bar' :-)

Serial input and Serial out are pronounced as words -- Sin and Sout.

Doubtles I will think of many more...

-tony

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Pronouncing acronyms (was Re: DEC acronyms)