Actually I do know folks who say "zohss". It grates on me. On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote:
> It seemed to me to be a geographical thing in the US. When I lived on the > east coast I always heard see-eye-see-ess and dee-oh-ess. When I moved to > the west coast is when I started hearing kicks and "doss." With the greater > geographical mobility now and more dispersed corporations that difference > may have disappeared. > > It's interesting. Everyone seems to say rack-eff and vee-tam and vee-sam > but > no one says zoss. > > Charles > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf > Of Howard Brazee > Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 9:27 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: CICS -> KICKS (Re: PROP instead of POPS, PoO, et al.) > > On 23 Jul 2010 08:52:54 -0700, [email protected] (zMan) wrote: > > >It's always appeared to me to be: > >Americans: see-eye-see-ess > >Others: kicks > > My brother said kicks. I don't know where he got that, he lived in > California. Wherever I've worked it was see-eye-see-ess, including > trips to customers around the U.S., but not outside. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
