What if you spell it ÇICS?
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Meir Zohar [zme...@bezeqint.net] Sent: Sunday, May 9, 2021 2:57 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Pronunciations (spun off of another thread) CICS pronounced Chicks/Thicks in Italy/Spain ... Took a moment to figure out what the speaker was talking about ... MZ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of David Spiegel Sent: Sunday, May 9, 2021 6:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Pronunciations (spun off of another thread) Hi Bob, This reminds me of a story. Back in 2000, I was doing an ACF2 to RACF conversion and one of the customer's people kept saying Ra-Keff (instead of Rack-Eff.) This REALLY got on my nerves. As an aside, a former colleague (with a British accent) always says ZOSS (instead of Zed-Oh-Ess or Zee-Oh-Ess). (He's not really British.) Have you ever heard ANYONE say IMZ (instead of Eye-Emm-Ess)? Regards, David On 2021-05-08 17:02, Bob Bridges wrote: > I grew up with "doss" and "see-eye-see-ess", but even here in the East I've > heard "kicks" often enough that I can adjust now if that's what the current > crowd uses. Actually I think sysprogs say "kicks" more than application > programmers, for some reason. > > I've heard "sicks" just once, I believe, but I don't remember where the > speaker was from. > > "Rack-eff", of course, so I guess I could excuse either "pee-rack-eff" or > "prack-eff". Dunno what it is, though. > > --- > Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 > > /* One of the quickest ways I've found to look foolish is to state > positively what God will not do. -Bob Bridges */ > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On > Behalf Of David Spiegel > Sent: Friday, May 7, 2021 17:10 > > (I'm also from Southern Ontario -- I say doss and cics.) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
