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NTSU Pronunciation guide
I met a South African gent the other day and naturally the subject of NTSU came up. He said "What?". I said, you know the snuff, N-T-S-U. At that point he laughed...."Oh, he says, you mean Ntsu?"
"What?" says I.
Turns out what I had been calling NTSU (ie saying each letter like ABC) for the past three years is in fact a Zulu word pronounced n-tsu (almost like ensue). It was a laugh, though I felt like a bit of a dumbass.
Perhaps Pieter can confirm?
Dave (pronounced dayve, not D-A-V-E) ;-)
"What?" says I.
Turns out what I had been calling NTSU (ie saying each letter like ABC) for the past three years is in fact a Zulu word pronounced n-tsu (almost like ensue). It was a laugh, though I felt like a bit of a dumbass.
Perhaps Pieter can confirm?
Dave (pronounced dayve, not D-A-V-E) ;-)
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At work on our blueprints, sometimes the drawer puts N.T.S down in the key (standing for Not To Scale). We always joke and say it more closely resembles Not Too Sure.
edit: leastwise the way people say it here in the US. I don't know how they pronounce it anywhere else, or the way it is supposed to be pronounced.
I've always said Ntsoo, as I'm in a band with a South African who knows these things...
;)