Don't know jickle, but don't confuse that with JECL, homophone of Mr. Hyde's evil twin.
. . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-302-7535 Office robin...@sce.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2016 9:51 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: How do you say "z/OS"? On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 6:34 AM, Bill Woodger <bill.wood...@gmail.com> 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 lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
