Reply 100 of 129, by sliderider
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wrote:I have always pronounced it as the word AWE, but AWE is an acronym for "Advanced Wave Effects", so I think that A-W-E is a fair way to say it. Does anyone try to say CGA, EGA, VGA, IDE, VLB, PCI, USB or AGP as a word and not the letters? Some people do that for ISA (ice-a), but that is incorrect. On the other hand, who says S-C-S-I instead of scuzzy?
For those other examples, though, except for maybe EGA and IDE it is difficult to pronounce them as words. EGA you could say ee-ga or egg-a and IDE you could pronounce like you would pronounce 'the IDEs of March" but neither would really sound right. AWE and SCSI just seem to work as words. And what's wrong with ISA as ice-a? At least it isn't like pronouncing OS X as OS echs instead of OS ten.