Never heard "immz". I have heard "zoss". Regarding "ra-keff" (but further afield), when I moved from the Midwest to Pennsylvania I noticed that many people pronounced my birth state "wess-KAHN-sin". We always say "wih-SKAHN-sin". Subtle difference in the 'k' sound, but it was plain enough to my ear.
--- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* The way to keep a secret is to keep it. -Bob Bridges' advice to young children */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of David Spiegel Sent: Saturday, May 8, 2021 23:42 This reminds me of a story. Back in 2000, I was doing an ACF2 to RACF conversion and one of the customer's people kept saying Ra-Keff (instead of Rack-Eff.) This REALLY got on my nerves. As an aside, a former colleague (with a British accent) always says ZOSS (instead of Zed-Oh-Ess or Zee-Oh-Ess). (He's not really British.) Have you ever heard ANYONE say IMZ (instead of Eye-Emm-Ess)? --- On 2021-05-08 17:02, Bob Bridges wrote: > I grew up with "doss" and "see-eye-see-ess", but even here in the East I've > heard "kicks" often enough that I can adjust now if that's what the current > crowd uses. Actually I think sysprogs say "kicks" more than application > programmers, for some reason. > > I've heard "sicks" just once, I believe, but I don't remember where the > speaker was from. > > "Rack-eff", of course, so I guess I could excuse either "pee-rack-eff" or > "prack-eff". Dunno what it is, though. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
