I once worked in Montreal, the Anglophones always had to suppress smirks when the Francophones were discussing CICS and DB2, "Keeks" and "Debbie duh".
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Porowski, Kenneth Sent: Friday, September 16, 2016 3:23 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How do you say "z/OS"? DOS was always 'doss' OS/360 was 'oh ess 360' SVS was 'ess vee ess' MVT was 'em vee tee' MVS was 'em vee ess' ESA was 'eee ess aaa' OS/390 was 'oh ess 390' -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Friday, September 16, 2016 4:15 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] How do you say "z/OS"? So "doss" is okay but not "zoss"? Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Porowski, Kenneth Sent: Friday, September 16, 2016 12:05 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How do you say "z/OS"? I consider anyone that doesn't pronounce all three letters separately to be a Mainframe newb. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
