Thread: Some abbreviations

How do you pronounce these abbreviations:

CMY, CMYK, LAB, WAP, POP, IMAP ?

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WAP is pronounced "wapp"

CMY - 'see em why'
CMYK - 'see em why kay'
LAB - 'lab' or 'el ay bee', depends.
WAP - 'wap'
POP - 'pee oh pee', don't know exactly.
IMAP - 'eye map'

What is CMY CMYK? Are we talking RGB 'ar gee bee' etc?
If so, then LAB is 'el ay be' and XYZ is 'ex why zed'
POP 'pop', as in 'pop music' - Point-of-Presence

Originally Posted by майк

What is CMY CMYK? Are we talking RGB 'ar gee bee' etc?
If so, then LAB is 'el ay be' and XYZ is 'ex why zed'
POP 'pop', as in 'pop music' - Point-of-Presence

When you encounter acronyms, the safest way is simply to name them off letter by letter. People will understand if you say "Eye Em Ey Pee" instead of "Eye Map." But they would have a hard time if you said "Seeah" instead of "See Eye Ey."

BTW, Americans pronounce letter "Z" as "Zee."

Originally Posted by Pravit

People will understand if you say "Eye Em Ey Pee" instead of "Eye Map"

Trouble is, you actually say IMAP - 'eye map'.
Interesting though, how to 'explain' how to say a word. I started to use this link
http://www.antimoon.com/how/pronunc-soundsipa.htm
but it takes a while and I saw that Jasper May had pretty much cracked it.

Yeah, but I'm saying you'll still be understood even if that's not correct.

BTW, how many people here say "Fack" and how many say "Eff Ay Cue?" I say "Fack", personally. Where's that pic I have of a Tokyo graffiti "Fack you man"?

What about JPG? "Jay-Peg" or "Jay Pee Gee?"

I'm pretty sure GIF is pronounced universally as "Jiff" though.

Originally Posted by Pravit

Yeah, but I'm saying you'll still be understood even if that's not correct.

BTW, how many people here say "Fack" and how many say "Eff Ay Cue?" I say "Fack", personally. Where's that pic I have of a Tokyo graffiti "Fack you man"?

What about JPG? "Jay-Peg" or "Jay Pee Gee?"

I'm pretty sure GIF is pronounced universally as "Jiff" though.

In my experience...

FAQ = Fack (at least, that's what I imagine I would say, though I don't recall ever having had need to)

jpg/ jpeg = jaypeg

gif = gif

People will understand if you say "Eye Em Ey Pee"

I'll challenge you on that one. Being an internet tech myself, it will stump me at first if I ever hear people say I.M.A.P. It would cause me to pause while I spellit out in my head and realize they ment IMAP (eye-map).

POP is almost always pronounced "pop". POP3 is "pop-three"


FAQ - I say it both ways. I use F A Q sometimes and other times I'll say "fack".

JPG -- When I see it as JPG, I will say J.P.G. When I see it as jpeg, I will say it as "jay-peg". Or when I'm refering to an image I would use jpeg. I don't have any one way of saying it.

gif -- I don't recall which way I use most. I switch between "gif" and "jif" a lot. That's mostly cause I pronouce my handle 'guice' as "juice".


Them three acronyms you'll find pronouced both ways. It's really best to know them both.

As for 'Z' -- British English is 'Zed', as well as Canadian english. American English is 'Zee'. Not to hard. You'll never hear it called "zed" within the US ever, unless you're speaking to a Canadian, Brit, or somebody from Aussy/NZ. But then you'll notice a bit more than just "Z" will be pronounced a bit different.

True, you would probably be stumped for a while, but you'd figure it out eventually But to get back to my previous example, it'd take you much longer to realize "Seeah" meant "CIA" or "Abs" meant "ABS"(as in Anti-lock Brake System).

@Pravit: Here tis :

YES!!!!

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How do I pronounce CTAN (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network)?

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Well, since it's not a widely-used abbreviation, I'd just spell it out (see-tee-ay-en), though you could say 'see-tan' as well.