Mispronouncing acronyms

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Andrew Burton wrote:
>> Okay, so who pronouces assembly mnemonics?  (As far as I can recall,
>   >  I've only been guilty of pronoucing BXLE as "bixle".)
>
> I know I'm a little late here (behind in emails again), but...
>
> Regarding MC68000 assembly, I often pronounce ROXL and ROXR as "Rocks-Ell"
> and "Rocks-Or". Why weren't they ROLX and RORX? Was it so that the former
> wasn't pronounced "Rol-Ex" (as in the watch manufacturer)?!

I pronounce a wide variety of IBM mainframe mnemonics.  For example BALR 
-> Bal-err.

Peace...  Sridhar