OSR BECMI, how do you say it?

[Jack Daniel]

"Red box oh-dee-and-dee."

 

[Aldarc]

I say it using my mouth and vocal chords, but using sign language is also valid.

 

[delericho]

I'm not sure I've ever actually said it out loud.

But I'd go for B.E.C.M.I.

 

[Cruentus]

Bee-Ex and Beck-me. Saying each letter sounds strange to me. Of course, I spent 20+ years in an organization built upon acronyms. So making up words based on the acronym was a major part of the job, we never just used the letters.

 

[Andvari]

Beck me. Although when I played it in the 90s we just said "Dungeons & Dragons." If the acronym was in use back then, we didn't know about it.

 

[Willie the Duck]

I type them out a lot more than I say them, but mentally in my head they can interchangeably be B.E.C.M.I, beck-me, Mentzer, 'the Mentzer boxed sets,' or 'the five colored boxed sets' depending on the needs of the conversation.

 

[thullgrim]

I used to go with BX but in the last couple of years I’ve moved to Beck Me.

 

[Iosue]

I say “beck-mi” in my head when I see it written out, but have never had an occasion to say it out loud. Back in the day, we just called it D&D, distinct from AD&D.

Which brings me to own personal, private peccadillo. I hate when people refer to B/X or BECMI or RC as a whole as “Basic D&D.” It wasn’t basic. The Basic Rules, such as they were, only covered the first three levels. If anything, it should be called “Expert D&D”, since that was where the bulk of the play was. And certainly by the time you get to the Master Set of BECMI, the game is as complex and baroque as AD&D.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

I say “beck-mi” in my head when I see it written out, but have never had an occasion to say it out loud. Back in the day, we just called it D&D, distinct from AD&D.

Which brings me to own personal, private peccadillo. I hate when people refer to B/X or BECMI or RC as a whole as “Basic D&D.” It wasn’t basic. The Basic Rules, such as they were, only covered the first three levels. If anything, it should be called “Expert D&D”, since that was where the bulk of the play was. And certainly by the time you get to the Master Set of BECMI, the game is as complex and baroque as AD&D.

 

[Muso]

In Italy BECMI is pronunced in this way:
B like in Best
E like in rEst
C like in CHeddar
M as usual
I like in sIster