Reminds me of a conversation I had regarding the words used to make people
smile when having their photograph taken. In the UK, we say "Cheese",
however, in Spain they say potatoes ("Patatas"), and in France they say
"Fromage" ... ? .. :-)
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Another way to pronounce the acronym as a single word is that often used
by native Italians who have learned English as a second language. They,
by default, will pronounce CICS as "cheeks", or perhaps "chicks". When I
worked for Landmark Systems Corp., the original developer of TMON/CICS, I
remember once sitting at a sidewalk café on the Via Veneta in Rome with a
Landmark colleague, sipping on a whiskey, and joking with him about how we
were monitoring "chicks" and their various subsystems as they strolled by.
Bill Fairchild
Rocket Software
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The see-eye-see-ess vs. kicks pronunciation wars...
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