Re: Political Correctness (Was Re: Master/Slave)

Subject: Re: Political Correctness (Was Re: Master/Slave)
From: "Sandy Harris" <sharris -at- dkl -dot- com>
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 14:06:58 -0400

"Hager, Harry (US - East Brunswick)" wrote:

> I guess we need to find substitutes for these words that
> must offend somebody out there:

> * SCSI, it just sounds dirty, right?

That was originally SASI, pronounced "sassy", but that stood for
Shugart Associates Standard Interface and company names are not allowed
in an ANSI standard name, so they changed it to SCSI. At first
there was some debate over whether to pronouce that "scuzzy" or
"sexy".

Let's ressurect the "sexy" pronunciation.




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