Settle an argument please

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

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

The initials.

I would say either depending how the mood takes me

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

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

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

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

I'm on your side OP.

Can be either, just personal preference.

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!

www.lexico.com/definition/asap

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

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

My preference is a.s.a.p

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).

Initials

A-sap is twatty.

Either. I’m a rebel though 😂

I say the initials.

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

A.S.A.P.

A-SAP is definitely more of an American thing.

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

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

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.

Me and DH both say a-sap

@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.

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

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....

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.

I say ASAP, not A-Sap