It's funny how once you get used to something, when it changes it just feels weird, even if it's correct. For as long as I can remember, I've called mec, well, "mec". My father-in-law says the letters so that sounds like emm-ee-see. I thought to myself "silly father-in-law, no one says that". You know, other than the people that work there... as I've come to learn. I've left my ears open and I'm noticing more and more people say it like that. Was there a flyer that I missed with the correct pronunciation? Maybe something with clear pictures like they have in airplanes on how to leave in case of emergency.
It could be that everyone is trying to play a very elaborate, sophisticated joke on me. Well, news to everyone else, I'm turning the tables. I'm going to start spelling out the letters of common words. So, when you go home on the bus, I'm going to take the bee-you-ess. I know that people will realize that I now know their joke and it's pointless to continue, but they are obligated to anyways.
I'll just wink to show that I understand. Sorry, I mean I'll just double-you-eye-en-kay. ;-)
Well for the record, I say "mec", and I've never heard it called otherwise. But these things have a habit of getting argued about. My favourite one is SQL. Which when I'm talking about MySQL i'll say My Ess-Queue-Ell, But when it's SQL Server, I'll say Sequel Server. Although I've heard the opposite in both those examples. Some people even say ASP as "asp" like the snake. No point arguing about these things, just let everyone pronounce things however they want.
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