Re: QRE: Do you pronounce...

Subject: Re: QRE: Do you pronounce...
From: Dossy Shiobara <dossy -at- panoptic -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:35:38 -0400

On 2007.10.10, Lauren <lt34 -at- csus -dot- edu> wrote:
> Wonderful. Now "Fekudden" is in my head.

I think it's being mispronounced. It's more like "Fehqueden." It
treads dangerously close to a verboten (VRBTN?) four-letter word, if the
"F" gets pronounced "fuh" instead of "feh."

> Now maybe one day FQDN will be pronounced as a word, like SCSI. Remember
> those? We may not like the word "scuzzy," I don't anyway, but SCSI is
> treated as word, as in "a SCSI" and not "an SCSI." Or at least it should be
> treated as a word because that is how it is stated in speech.

Well, in the case of an adjective (i.e., "a SCSI drive") take out the
adjective (i.e., "a drive" not "an drive").

This doesn't work so well with nouns (i.e., "FQDN").

-- Dossy

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