Do not call them PCMCIA Cards (was "An interesting eBay find ....)

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Mon Jul 20 08:08:06 CDT 2009


Jim MacKenzie wrote:
> I don't tend to pronounce acronyms that much, since they aren't meant to 
> be pronounced (which leads to interesting acronyms like "VW", which 
> takes longer to pronounce than the word it abbreviates, but then again 
> I'm thankful we don't call it a "voow").

I often hear "VW" pronounced "vee-dub".

Peace...  Sridhar


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