Settle an argument please

[floppyhare]

Is it a-sap or A.S.A.P when you say it ? I say the initials and twat colleague says a-sap.

[Moonflower12]

I say 'a' 's' 'a' 'p'.

[pumpkinbump]

The initials.

[Thisseatisnotavailable]

I would say either depending how the mood takes me

[Batqueen]

I say both. Quicker to say a-sap if you are in a hurry, which you often are when needing things a.s.a.p

[Onekidnoclue]

I say a-sap. Now worried I’m your twatty colleague!

[Neverender]

Doesn't matter as long as someone knows what you mean, surely?

[Disquieted1]

Does your colleague pronounce OMG as ommmg? Or USA as usser?

I'm on your side OP.

[ScarfLadysBag]

Can be either, just personal preference.

[SunbathingDragon]

I’ve never heard it said a-sap before. It’d backfire if someone said that to me as I’d have to get them to explain what they meant!

[ScarfLadysBag]

www.lexico.com/definition/asap

Oxford Dictionaries has both pronunciations at the top to listen to if anyone is interested!

[TerrapinStation]

Ime Americans tend to say asap, in the UK saying the letters is more common.

My preference is a.s.a.p

[Frlrlrubert]

I think convention is that if the letters stand for something you say the letters, in the UK anyway.

I remember in House they say MRSA as 'mersah' and it annoyed me.

I don't think I say ASAP at all (not helpful).

[IncrediblySadToo]

Initials

A-sap is twatty.

[EmbarrassedUser]

Either. I’m a rebel though 😂

[MumpsimusMaximus]

I say the initials.

DH still says ASP (the initials but misses out the A) despite me repeatedly telling him it annoys me.

[BeeFarseer]

A.S.A.P.

A-SAP is definitely more of an American thing.

[floppyhare]

I never thought of it as more American, my colleague isn't American, he's from part of England.

[Waveysnail]

A S A P. A SAP is awful and really American

[floppyhare]

onekid my colleague is a twat for many reasons, a-sap is not one of them but his twattishness makes me more irked by it.

[Thecruxxofitis]

Me and DH both say a-sap

[goodwinter]

@Disquieted1 And how do you pronounce NATO? Or NASA? You can't just cherry-pick examples like that. Not all acronyms are initialisms. I think ASAP could go either way.

[DramaAlpaca]

I usually say all the initials but might say A-SAP if the mood takes me.

[Neverender]

Actually, I'd only ever actually say as soon as possible. Don't think I'd ever say ASAP or A-SAP but you know what they mean....

[MrsWooster]

Ay-sap or assap? I'd tend to a.s.a.p with beief flirtations with assap if I was being giddy. Never Ay-sap, as that is the mark of scoundrel.

[KatherineJaneway]

I say ASAP, not A-Sap