Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!seismo!lll-crg!lll-lcc!pyramid!decwrl!sun!landauer From: landauer@sun.uucp (Doug Landauer) Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.mac,net.micro.pc,net.micro.att Subject: Re: SCSI pronunciation query Message-ID: <3733@sun.uucp> Date: Wed, 21-May-86 20:41:19 EDT Article-I.D.: sun.3733 Posted: Wed May 21 20:41:19 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 24-May-86 04:43:40 EDT References: <703@mtung.UUCP> Reply-To: landauer@sun.UUCP (Doug Landauer) Distribution: net Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Lines: 38 Xref: linus net.micro:13307 net.micro.mac:6028 net.micro.pc:7948 net.micro.att:1231 In article <703@mtung.UUCP> slj@mtung.UUCP (Steven Jones) writes: >I read that, as a rule, people in the Apple world tend to pronounce >SCSI as "sexy" while people in the IBM world say "scuzzy." >[...] >There are four categories 1A, 1B, 2A, and 2B where 1=use "SCUZZY" >2=use "SEXY" and A=prefer "SCUZZY" B=prefer "SEXY." Please send >me email ... ...ihnp4!mtung!slj This is a wonderful example of how careful you have to be when you want a survey's results to be meaningful. There are at least two more categories: 3 - Use and prefer "ESS SEE ESS EYE". 4 - Never heard of SCSI and don't know what it means, or care how it's pronounced. (Here's my vote for number 3, and my wife's vote for number 4.) It seems to me to be quite unnecessary to invent a pronunciation for an unpronounceable acronym, by throwing in gratuitous vowels. Doing so (in this case) makes you sound provincial, cliqueish; intending more to confuse than to convey information. It makes you sound like a nerd, much more so than just pronouncing the letters that make up the acronym. Now, if it was the "Small Expensive Computer Systems Interface", or the "Small Computer Unusable Zebra-Ztriped Interface", it wouldn't be a problem. Do you call your computer an "Ibbem pick"? P.S., what does SCSI really stand for? -- Doug Landauer {ihnp4, amdahl, decwrl, seismo, ..}!sun!landauer landauer@sun.arpa (so I've been told) -- -- Doug Landauer {ihnp4, amdahl, decwrl, seismo, ..}!sun!landauer landauer@sun.arpa (so I've been told)