Now that you mention this, I guess I'm being inconsistent when I say "see eye see ess" and "eye em ess", but privately chuckle when ignorami say "are ay see eff" instead of "rack-eff".
I've heard "zoss", but I can't imagine ever adopting it. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* There are no timeouts [in soccer], so the only way players can catch their breath is to sustain a major injury. A guy will get bumped by another player, or a beam of sunlight, and he'll hurl himself dramatically to the ground, writhing and clutching his leg and screaming that the referee should get a priest out there immediately to administer the last rites, or at least call a foul. Some players suffer four or five fatal injuries per game. That's how tough they are. -Dave Barry */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Laurence Chiu Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2023 03:04 Note that since CICS came from Hursley and the Brits say kicks, then that is the right pronunciation. But it's very irregular since I used to be an IMS sysprog and I always say eye-em-ess and not ims. Lately I have been hearing people say zos while I say Zed Oh Ess and sometimes Zee Oh Ess --- Someone wrote: > I have been sayyng kicks for as long as I have been involved in IBM > mainframe, starting in the US in 1982 and on and off until now. The US is > not my home country so I count myself as international. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
