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Old 08-26-2012, 01:29 PM
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Default "NOID" pronunciation?

I know that NOID means No ID. But do you pronounce it "no i. d." or "noid" (rhymes with Lloyd)? Don't want to sound silly at my next orchid show.
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Old 08-26-2012, 01:50 PM
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i used to say "noid" but then i heard some people at an orchid show chuckling about someone else saying the same thing. ive since switched to No I.D.
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Old 08-27-2012, 07:41 PM
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I've always heard it pronounced as NOiD as in Loyd. And it sounds better that way. In the english language the shorter the better. Saying "I have this No I D here" doesn't fit the rule of "lingo". Saying "I have this NOiD" sounds better.
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Old 08-27-2012, 10:42 PM
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I have no idea what may be considered 'correct' lol - myself, I say noid
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Old 08-28-2012, 08:53 AM
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>>No idea<<!!!!

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Old 08-28-2012, 10:21 AM
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I say Noid as is Lloyd, but I'm not sure whether people outside of Orchid Board use it or not so never use it when talking to other Orchid growers at shows. No ID as two words will be understandable by anyone so I use that when speaking to people.

In the UK we usually pronounce abbreviations as the individual letters. So this would be No I D however when I first read it here on OB I didn't know what it meant and so thought Noid in my head and have never broken that pattern.

I've noticed in other things that people in the USA tend to turn abbreviations into words and pronounce them as a word. For example OLE (used in computers) I would pronounce it O L E but we had a visitor at a work conference from the USA who pronounced it Olé (like the Spanish cheer). Took me quite a while to realise what he was talking about. But I've come across other instances of the same thing where I've realised that someone from the USA has turned an abbreviation into a word. People don't tend to do that here, however as I said before, I say Noid in this case
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Old 09-02-2012, 10:50 PM
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alright - i have no idea which is correct, but when i first started reading noid - all i could think of was the NOID from the old dominos commericals....that little annoying guy who stole the pizza. i was a tad bit confused at first!
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Old 09-03-2012, 02:05 AM
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I say NOID as in Lloyd.
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Old 09-03-2012, 08:44 AM
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I can say that at our orchid society they just say No ID, but that's probably to avoid mass confusion. I too think of the Domino's character, that annoying little pizza stealing devil! LOL...
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