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Is OP pronounced OhPee or Awp?

113 replies

SugarnetMum · 23/05/2017 01:58

In a debate with someone over this

OP posts:
sleepingdragons · 23/05/2017 01:59

OhPee

PerspicaciaTick · 23/05/2017 02:00

Like hop but with a dropped aitch.

FurCoatAndNaeKnickers · 23/05/2017 02:00

Oh Pee

TheDowagerCuntess · 23/05/2017 02:00

It stands for Original Post, or Original Poster, so it's letter 'O', letter 'P'.

Awp?! Grin

KoalaDownUnder · 23/05/2017 02:01

Oh Pee. Surely.

Do you pronounce GP 'Guhp'? Grin

73kittycat73 · 23/05/2017 02:01

OhPee here too.

73kittycat73 · 23/05/2017 02:02

Do you pronounce GP 'Guhp'?

Lol Grin

paxillin · 23/05/2017 02:05

Oh Pee of course.

Having said that, I was recently informed (on MN) that "doll" rhymes with goal, so what do I know.

fourquenelles · 23/05/2017 02:05

I pronounce it op as in operation. Why use 2 syllables when one will do?

highinthesky · 23/05/2017 02:08

Having said that, I was recently informed (on MN) that "doll" rhymes with goal, so what do I know.

How droll.

paxillin · 23/05/2017 02:09

Is that droal?

SugarnetMum · 23/05/2017 02:12

Yeah I pronounce it oh pee too sounds so much better Grin glad I'm not the only one

OP posts:
WhatToDoAboutThis2017 · 23/05/2017 02:28

It's definitely OhPee Grin

TheMysteriousJackelope · 23/05/2017 02:34

Ope, as in 'Oppa Gangnam Style'.

Double points for doing the horsey dance while Mumsnetting.

TheDowagerCuntess · 23/05/2017 02:35

Having said that, I was recently informed (on MN) that "doll" rhymes with goal, so what do I know.

paxillin - I'm intrigued as to how you pronounce them!

TheDowagerCuntess · 23/05/2017 02:36

GrinJackelope

user1491572121 · 23/05/2017 02:40

I remember someone on here asking if AIBU was pronounced

Eye-Boo

or

Ay-boo to rhyme with "Hey-Boo_

It's Eye-Boo of course...

redshoeblueshoe · 23/05/2017 02:41

surely no one ever says it out loud Confused

NinjaLeprechaun · 23/05/2017 02:42

If I'm saying it out loud, I say "Oh Pee", but if it I'm just reading it to myself then it scans as "'ope" - as in hope with a dropped H.

iogo · 23/05/2017 02:46

OhPee

Surely no one says AIBU outloud so it's just AIBU?

NinjaLeprechaun · 23/05/2017 02:46

"Do you pronounce GP 'Guhp'?"
GP is pronounced "jip", surely. (In fact, if I'm reading out loud I probably say "doctor"or grandparent because I'm translating-on-the-fly into American English.)

NinjaLeprechaun · 23/05/2017 02:48

damn, strikethrough fail.

SugarnetMum · 23/05/2017 02:59

I mean when I'm reading it in my head, I think of it as oh pee

OP posts:
YouCanStandMeUpSpartacus · 23/05/2017 03:07

In what accent does "doll" rhyme with "goal"?

I thought it was O.P., as a reference to O.G.

KoalaDownUnder · 23/05/2017 03:07

GP is pronounced Jee Pee. Y'know, the letters 'G' and 'P' when you say the alphabet.