Ah-Cass or YOU-Cass? (UCAS)

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DH and I disagree with the pronunciation of UCAS.

He says its AhCass, and I say its YOUCass, - his reference is from 30 odd years ago.

YABU - Ahcass
YANBU - YOUCass

I’ve only ever heard it as YOU-Cass

Left school in the year 2000 if that’s relevant

YOU-cas. Where is the Ah sound??

UCAS call themselves YOU-cas that should be the answer.

It is you-cas.

Of course it’s you-cass.
What is his reference from? Sounds like he’s mixing it up

Where does he get Ah from? He’s not getting mixed up with ACAS (the union) is he?

30 years ago it was UCCA (‘ukker’)

Now it’s You-Cass.

He’s wrong.

.... with Acas?

@HopeClearwater

30 years ago it was UCCA (‘ukker’)

Now it’s You-Cass.

He’s wrong.

This

Is he mixing it up with ACAS? Which is Ay-CAS.

How does he pronounce University if he thinks UCAS is Ah-CASS?

And ACAS has always been Ay-Cass.

No one has ever said ah-cas. Is he quite well?

Ah Are Not Being Unreasonable.

I could understand uh-cass as that was what it was referred to as for a few years after it was renamed from UCCA (uh-cah]. But ah? Why?

How on earth could it possibly even BE ah-cas? No one pronounces the letter U as 'Ah'. And it stands for Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. Ask him how 'universities' can be said 'Ahniversities'...

Is he merely confusing his acronyms? ACAS is the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service...

Definitely You-cas. It came in 29 years ago when PCAS and UCCA merged.

Where has his ‘ah’ pronunciation come from?!

@HopeClearwater

30 years ago it was UCCA (‘ukker’)

Now it’s You-Cass.

He’s wrong.

I’m another person old enough to have applied through UCCA. PCAS was for the polys.

UCAS (You cass )
Before that was UCCA (Uh-ka) which is possibly an Ah sound in some accents (?)

maybe more of an UH than AH

I’m 35, I say you-cass which I imagine I would’ve got from tutors at sixth form, but I can remember my dad calling it uckas (short u like up) which I found terribly cringey Now I see UCCA/“ukker” was a thing I can see why!!

Yes it used to be an UCCA form (pronounced uk-ker) until the early 1990s. There was also a PCAS (pee-cass) form for those applying to polytechnics.
When all the old polys were awarded university status in c.1993, the two forms were rolled together into one UCAS (you-cass) form.

UCCA!!! that must be what he is remembering!

You cass

Well, he's wrongity wrong wrong whether 'uh' or 'ah'...

Never heard of Ah-cass. It's you-cass and always had been.
In my day it was called UCCA (ukker, as others have said).
ACAS is something different, and said ay-cass, again as pp have said.
Think he doesn't know what he's talking about.....

Is he still calling Starburst Opal fruits?