MERGED: How do you say the site name? / What's with Eeee Ennn World?

[Nyaricus]

I have a friend who pronounces Gencon as "ghen con" as in ghengis khan, not Gen as in generation (or geneva). It's a bit like fingernails on a chalkboard to me so I can see where Ennnworld would be similar.

Actually, I've always pronounced it Ghen-con

 

[JRRNeiklot]

I'd guess that you're a high school administrator or councilor of some sort. How sad.

Or an NFL announcer. Favre is not pronounced Farv. Danmit.

 

[cougent]

I have a friend who pronounces Gencon as "ghen con" as in ghengis khan, not Gen as in generation (or geneva). It's a bit like fingernails on a chalkboard to me so I can see where Ennnworld would be similar.

Back in the days of dialup BBS' the "system operator" was abreviated as sysop. It used to really drive me nuts when people called that the "psi-sop" instead of "sis-op". As someone else said fingernails on the chalkboard.

It took me months after first hearing of this site to actually find it, because I thought my friends and gaming buds were referring to a place called "Ian's World". It was some time before I cleared up that confusion, the whole time wondering why I couldn't find it in any web search.


So yeah, I pronounce it EE NN World, and so does everyone I know.

My experience was in reverse, I kept hearing about "N World", but could never find this place. Only when I saw an ENnie award winner with a link here did I get here. EE NN World for me too.

 

[ssampier]

bring back the Intellifilter

If we keep this debate up, they'll bring out the IntelliFilter again.

 

[blargney the second]

Yay, Intellifilter!

 

[Desdichado]

But it's initials. E.N. You cannot just mix those together into a single conglomerate.

Pshaw. Of course you can. There are entire words formed that way that most people forget were once acronyms, after all. Scuba. Laser.

You can totally pronounce out an acronym as if it were a word. In fact, it's an extremely common practice. Which is part of the reason why I prefer saying Enworld exactly as it's written; not E.N. World.

Which is not how it's written, I might add.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

Which is part of the reason why I prefer saying Enworld exactly as it's written; not E.N. World.

Which is not how it's written, I might add.

That is not how it is written either. It is EN World.

 

[Nifft]

IMHO: merging "EN" into "Ian" is acceptable, while merging "EN" into the first syllable of en guard is unacceptable*.

Cheers, -- N

*) Because that would sound French.

 

[Lanefan]

IMHO: merging "EN" into "Ian" is acceptable, while merging "EN" into the first syllable of en guard is unacceptable*.

Does that make the E-N defenders "en guards"?

I'll leave now........

Lanefan

 

[jmucchiello]

I think Morrus has answered the question, look at the top of your browser.

Actually, I noticed that first and was happy to find this thread to explain what was up with the site title.

I just love the deep, important discussions on Ee En double-U Oh Arr El Dee