Spent some time in Phoenix teaching some REXX to colleagues. I'm an English guy who moved to OZ in 1986 and had 5 years in California.
After about an hour one of the guys put his hand up and said, "excuse me, what's ZED?" On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 3:52 AM, Jesse 1 Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > [email protected] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of John McKown > Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2016 9:51 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: (External):Re: How do you say "z/OS"? > > 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 > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
