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NEC: is it "neck" or N-E-C? zeb7k 11-03-2006
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Posted by Tom The Great on November 3, 2006, 1:04 pm



>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>zeb7k@hotmail.com wrote:
>>>> Hi, I just wanted to find out how professsional electricians refer to
>>>> the National Electrical Code. Do they spell it out or do they
>>>> pronounce it "neck"?
>>>
>>>People don't say oosa, fibbee, or niba. They say USA, FBI and NBA.
>>>Same with the nec. ;)
>>>
>>>R
>>
>> OSHA
>>
>snafu
>


Think 4 or more letters get sounded out like a word, 3 or less get
spelled out.

Is there a rule for this?

later,

tom @ www.FreeCreditReportAdvice.com


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Posted by Charlie Morgan on November 3, 2006, 2:11 pm


wrote:

>
>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>zeb7k@hotmail.com wrote:
>>>>> Hi, I just wanted to find out how professsional electricians refer to
>>>>> the National Electrical Code. Do they spell it out or do they
>>>>> pronounce it "neck"?
>>>>
>>>>People don't say oosa, fibbee, or niba. They say USA, FBI and NBA.
>>>>Same with the nec. ;)
>>>>
>>>>R
>>>
>>> OSHA
>>>
>>snafu
>>
>
>
>Think 4 or more letters get sounded out like a word, 3 or less get
>spelled out.
>
>Is there a rule for this?
>

Nope. Some work as words and some don't

NAACP

Some would work as words, but still get spelled out

AARP

Individual Retirement Accounts is a three letter acronym, but it often
gets pronounced as a word

IRA



Posted by Mark Lloyd on November 3, 2006, 11:04 pm


wrote:

>
>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>zeb7k@hotmail.com wrote:
>>>>> Hi, I just wanted to find out how professsional electricians refer to
>>>>> the National Electrical Code. Do they spell it out or do they
>>>>> pronounce it "neck"?
>>>>
>>>>People don't say oosa, fibbee, or niba. They say USA, FBI and NBA.
>>>>Same with the nec. ;)
>>>>
>>>>R
>>>
>>> OSHA
>>>
>>snafu
>>
>
>
>Think 4 or more letters get sounded out like a word, 3 or less get
>spelled out.
>

I keep remembering LEM. That's 3 printed letters, even if you think
the word you hear has 4.

>Is there a rule for this?
>

Probably not.

>later,
>
>tom @ www.FreeCreditReportAdvice.com
--
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no place in the curriculum of our nation's public
school classes." -- Ted Kennedy

Posted by mm on November 4, 2006, 12:12 am


wrote:

>
>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>zeb7k@hotmail.com wrote:
>>>>> Hi, I just wanted to find out how professsional electricians refer to
>>>>> the National Electrical Code. Do they spell it out or do they
>>>>> pronounce it "neck"?
>>>>
>>>>People don't say oosa, fibbee, or niba. They say USA, FBI and NBA.
>>>>Same with the nec. ;)
>>>>
>>>>R
>>>
>>> OSHA
>>>
>>snafu
>>
>
>
>Think 4 or more letters get sounded out like a word, 3 or less get
>spelled out.
>
>Is there a rule for this?

No, don't think so. It's been discussed a few times on
alt.english.usage , and probably also on alt.usage.english .

In Spanish, at least in Central America, they make a real effort to
prononce everything they can. IGA was eega. IGGS was eegs.

But the US FBI was still the effe bay ee. It took me along time to
figure out what he was saying.

>
>later,
>
>tom @ www.FreeCreditReportAdvice.com


Posted by Mark Lloyd on November 3, 2006, 10:16 am


wrote:

>zeb7k@hotmail.com wrote:
>> Hi, I just wanted to find out how professsional electricians refer to
>> the National Electrical Code. Do they spell it out or do they
>> pronounce it "neck"?
>
>People don't say oosa, fibbee, or niba. They say USA, FBI and NBA.
>Same with the nec. ;)
>
>

Unlike those, NEC does sound like a word. People often do say those as
words.

I grew up at the time of the Apollo program. They had a lot of those
initials that got pronounced as words, like Portable Life Support
System and Lunar Excursion Module that were usually pronounced "pliss"
and "limb".
--
52 days until the winter solstice celebration

Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.laughingsquid.com

"Unlike biological evolution. 'intelligent design' is
not a genuine scientific theory and, therefore, has
no place in the curriculum of our nation's public
school classes." -- Ted Kennedy

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