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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) How do U pronounce it?
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Posted: 2/2/2006 9:48:38 PM EDT
1. "YOU PEE ES"
or
2. "UHPs"
Posted: 2/2/2006 9:49:46 PM EDT
[#1]
Just like the parcel delivery service.
You Pee Es
Posted: 2/2/2006 9:50:03 PM EDT
[#2]
Like I prnounce FBI, and CIA, and all that... The letters
U
P
S
Posted: 2/2/2006 10:00:55 PM EDT
[#3]
I thought it was Ewe Pea Esse
Posted: 2/2/2006 10:10:26 PM EDT
[#4]
Oooops
Posted: 2/2/2006 10:14:17 PM EDT
[#5]
Posted: 2/2/2006 10:35:59 PM EDT
[#6]
well I'll pad my post count by saying
u
p
s
Posted: 2/2/2006 10:46:30 PM EDT
[#7]
I heard a sales guy call it an "UHPs" once. I think we fired him.
Posted: 2/2/2006 11:35:22 PM EDT
[#8]
how about "cache"?
Posted: 2/3/2006 8:24:57 AM EDT
[#9]
Quoted:
how about "cache"?
Pronounced just like CASH. Note that this is different from caché, which is pronounced cash-ey.
-Troy
Posted: 2/3/2006 10:49:37 AM EDT
[#10]
Every time I hear VOIP pronounced "vhoyp" I want to smash my remote through my TV glass.
Posted: 2/3/2006 10:51:58 AM EDT
[#11]
Most of the time I call it an up's. As in the word up, like "up in the sky". But with an s afterwards.
Posted: 2/3/2006 10:53:19 AM EDT
[#12]
Yu Pee Ess
Posted: 2/3/2006 11:03:28 AM EDT
[#13]
No, no, it's spelled U-P-S, but it's pronounced Throat Wobbler Mangrove....
Posted: 2/3/2006 11:22:29 AM EDT
[#14]
It is pronounced: "what-was-that-holy-shit-shut-everything-down"
Posted: 2/3/2006 5:57:39 PM EDT
[#15]
#2.
Posted: 4/5/2006 5:44:51 PM EDT
[#16]
Um....Ahhh...
Just like how the various manufacturers that make the units call them - "U-P-S"
Posted: 4/5/2006 5:51:59 PM EDT
[#17]
Quoted:
Every time I hear VOIP pronounced "vhoyp" I want to smash my remote through my TV glass.
Why?
We pronounce it just like its spelling. Voy-p.
Posted: 4/5/2006 6:01:45 PM EDT
[#18]
I hate it when people pronounce URL a "yoorel"
Posted: 4/6/2006 9:58:29 AM EDT
[#19]
And then there is Database "Scheme".
[ARCHIVED THREAD] - UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) How do U pronounce it?
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