No, I am NOT 11.
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baratronI am such a child. There is a journal entitled Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. I always "hear" its abbreviated form, PNAS, as "penis".
Time to grow up, I think!
(But seriously - how else would you pronounce it? P.N.A.S? Penas?)
Time to grow up, I think!
(But seriously - how else would you pronounce it? P.N.A.S? Penas?)
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Date: 2010-09-22 10:44 am (UTC)PNAS
Date: 2010-09-22 11:02 am (UTC)We always called it pee-nass.
But yes, usually elided to sound more like penis! Coz it's funnier that way.