Interesting the "hybrid" pronunciations -- part letter, part as though it were a word:
vee-sam vee-tam (sometimes victor-tam, a hybrid of phonetic alphabet and word) bee-tam (sometimes baker-tam, ditto) queue-sam bee-sam bee-pam bee-dam tee-cam queue-tam And those were and are ALWAYS thus. One occasionally hears or heard dee-oh-ess and see-eye-see-ess, but never bee-tee-ay-em. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Porowski, Kenneth Sent: Friday, September 16, 2016 1:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How do you say "z/OS"? DOS was always 'doss' OS/360 was 'oh ess 360' SVS was 'ess vee ess' MVT was 'em vee tee' MVS was 'em vee ess' ESA was 'eee ess aaa' OS/390 was 'oh ess 390' ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
