On Monday 09 December 2002 01.01, David Gerard Matthews wrote: [...] > Yeah, when I went to buy a SCSI Zip disk a few years ago when I was > living in Austria, I was surprised > to learn that they pronounce SCSI Es-Tseh-Es-I (in other words, > exactly as the individual letters are pronounced > in German.) In the US we say "scuzzy". I kept saying "Haben Sie > ein scuzzy Zip-Laufwerk?" and getting strange > looks.
Then germans definitely *are* more in favor of spelling than swedes. We almost exclusively use the US pronounciation. And we have a tendency of shortening and simplifying ordinary words as well. (Nothing like the danes, though! :-) I guess this is related. It's also really rather off-topic, isn't it? :-) //David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate .- The Return of Audiality! --------------------------------. | Free/Open Source Audio Engine for use in Games or Studio. | | RT and off-line synth. Scripting. Sample accurate timing. | `---------------------------> http://olofson.net/audiality -' .- M A I A -------------------------------------------------. | The Multimedia Application Integration Architecture | `----------------------------> http://www.linuxdj.com/maia -' --- http://olofson.net --- http://www.reologica.se ---