No, I am NOT 11.

[baratron]

I 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?)

Comments

[emperor]

At work we seem to call it pee-en-ay-ess

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Same here.

[bondagewoodelf.livejournal.com]

Friend of mine calls it puh-nass

[bob]

p naz

PNAS

[thekumquat.livejournal.com]

A very fine journal, but I might be biased as my only first-author paper is in it!
We always called it pee-nass.

But yes, usually elided to sound more like penis! Coz it's funnier that way.