You bet. I worked with IBM Hursley (where CICS is developed) in the late 80's and early 90's, and CICS was and always has been pronounced "Kicks" here in the UK.
On 10/05/2021 16:10, Joel C. Ewing wrote: > IBM classes in US in early 1980's seemed to consistently pronounce CICS > as C-I-C-S (see-eye-see-ess), so that's the custom we adopted and taught > at our installation when we started using the product. > > One of our SysProgs got heavily involved with CICS development in > Hursley Park, U.K. in 1990's because of some design issues we were > having with CICS, and IBM ended up paying his way to visit IBM Hursley > for a week. At IBM Hursley they consistently called it "Kicks", so our > CICS support SysProgs also got used to that convention as well. Our > applications people continued to call it C-I-C-S. > > Not sure which source to take as authoritative, but "Kicks" takes less > effort to say -- which makes it a logical choice if you have to > reference the product very frequently in conversation. > > JC Ewing > > On 5/9/21 1:57 AM, Meir Zohar wrote: >> CICS pronounced Chicks/Thicks in Italy/Spain ... >> Took a moment to figure out what the speaker was talking about ... >> >> MZ >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of >> David Spiegel >> Sent: Sunday, May 9, 2021 6:42 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Pronunciations (spun off of another thread) >> >> Hi Bob, >> 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)? >> >> Regards, >> David >> >> 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. >>> >>> --- >>> Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 >>> >>> /* One of the quickest ways I've found to look foolish is to state >>> positively what God will not do. -Bob Bridges */ >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On >>> Behalf Of David Spiegel >>> Sent: Friday, May 7, 2021 17:10 >>> >>> (I'm also from Southern Ontario -- I say doss and cics.) >>> > ... > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
