How do you pronounce DITL?

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"Dee Eye Tee El"
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"Dittle"
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colmquinn wrote: - prob a psychologist could get some deep meaning from they type of personal choice of pronunciation here
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He didn't say "psychoanalyst." :lol:
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Mikey wrote:He didn't say "psychoanalyst." Freud :lol:
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DITL, When i read it it's Dittle, but when i say it its Dee Aye Tea 'ell
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DITL, dittle never even crossed my mind before now
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D I T L for me.
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Lighthawk wrote:DITL, dittle never even crossed my mind before now
Same here, it never occurred to me to thinko f pronouncing it "dittle" until someone had mentioned it here.
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How do you all pronounce 'NASA'? Nasser or N.A.S.A?
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thelordharry wrote:How do you all pronounce 'NASA'? Nasser or N.A.S.A?
Where do you get Nasser?

That I pronounce the word, not the letters.
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Ya, I pronounce it Nassah,
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I pronounce DITL as "Dittle" and NASA as "Nassa".
stitch626 wrote:Where do you get Nasser?
Psst... he's English. ;)
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stitch626 wrote:Where do you get Nasser?
Egypt, I think.
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Mikey wrote:
stitch626 wrote:Where do you get Nasser?
Egypt, I think.
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Yassar, that's my baby.

You know what I mean though. If it has enough vowels in the acronym to allow it to look like a pronounceable word, then I guess it's natural to do so.
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Nassa over here.
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