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From: dpz@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (David P. Zimmerman)
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Subject: Re: SCSI pronunciation query
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Date: Thu, 22-May-86 11:28:17 EDT
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>>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.

Ah, but add *another* one!
	5 - Pronounce SCSI as SCIZZY!  Quite neutral, although it has
shades of SCUZZY.

>(Here's my vote for number 3, and my wife's vote for number 4.)

My vote's for SCUZZY, I'm just used to it, doesn't have any
connotations to me.  Anyway, saying ESS SEE ESS EYE just takes too
much time - by the time I'm through saying it, people have dropped off
to sleep.

>Do you call your computer an "Ibbem pick"?

You don't *want* to hear what I call my computer...

>P.S., what does SCSI really stand for?

SCSI stands for the Small Computer Systems Interface.  Lotsa fun words
there that mean just another port.

			David
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