Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: MOTM

Is it

EM OH TEE EM

or

MO' TEM

??

I was talking with Paul Schreiber on the phone one time and he
pronounced it the first way, each letter by itself.

And a related question. When you have a name in your head, do you have
in mind both a spelling and a sound? A friend of mine had a dog he
called "Dow". At least that is how it was spelled in my head when I
called the dog. "Here, Dow. Good dog!" Later I found out his name was
"Tao".

So in this case we have an acronym for something, Modular Of The
Mothers, etc., I forget exactly :). But what is its sound? In your own
mind, when you see ∗MOTM∗, how does it ring?

-Richard Brewster