On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 6:34 AM, Bill Woodger <[email protected]> wrote:
> NaN in computing is pronounced, right? My rule of thu... mouth I suppose, > is if it can be pronounced, pronounce it, otherwise say the letters but > with no gaps in between. Emveeess vs Em-vee-ess. > > 1970's training video, American guy with hairstyle which made his head > look like a triangle, studiously pronouncing each individual letter, D-O-S > J-C-L, with alternating minor waggles of his head at each letter. Not > enough time in the world for that. > Oh, and now we can discuss how to say JCL as a word? I have always her Jickel (rhymes with Nickel). > > In Portuguese, and allowing for my phonetics for the second, sicks and > dehbehdoish (CICS, DB2). > > -- Unix: Some say the learning curve is steep, but you only have to climb it once. -- Karl Lehenbauer Unicode: http://xkcd.com/1726/ Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
