I was surprised to hear Phil's pronunciation of our favorite acronym in his recent video blog posting. How do you pronounce it?

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"Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest." (Paul Simon)

I missed it--how did Phil say it?

Edit: Oh, yeah--99% of the time, I call it "the board."

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"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

I say it rhyming with 'out'.

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sounds like 'short'

just like baud on the good ole' modems. Rhymes with out, indeed. Or just like the last part of "about". That is option 2, I assume? Well, actually I give it a flat Flemish pronounciation on top of that.

(in my English, bought doesn't really rhyme with hot anyway )

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It´s a challenge for the French...

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I assume it will be bote for them

Actually, that is a massive pun.

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Yeah...

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Me, too. But do you say it like we Americans say "out" or like those Canadians say it?

Say what now? I don't think I've ever heard "baud" pronounced to rhyme with "out" - "baud" is more like "bawd" than "boud".

Isn't it?

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Boo-hoo, languages.

Well, it's a baut as in out, but flat. I don't know how you pronounce baud, but it sounds like a flat b+out to me . Not like bawd .

Never mind

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Well, I can almost hear Neil Young singing "Baut on the weekend"

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Bought rhymes with hot?

I say BAUT. Rhymes with naught.

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Don of Borg - Cool, Calm, Collective.

"Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Hum,
i thought it rhymed with the phrase "Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!"

But now that i think about it, it appears to sound more like "but"

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Not that I ever say it, out loud.

I say it to myself in my head, when nobody else is listening; and in my head it is pronounced like naught

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Don of Borg - Cool, Calm, Collective.

"Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Once Ari punned us with "aBAUT", it was set from then on for me.

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Lighten up! This is a stellar board! Author: duh.

"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

I say 'BAUT' like 'hot', or, more fitting, astronaut.

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.

Same here Farmer.

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Same here. So, how come there's only one (my) Other vote?

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because "naught" is pronounced like "hot" (ish, slight "a" inflection, if that's the right word to describe it) and that's what the rest voted for

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.

No, it's pronounced "nawt." Everyone else is just... wrong.

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