> He told us the correct sound is between "rosh" and "rose".
> After all, ROHS directive is not invented by US. It is 
> original
> a European directive. So do not expect that it should be
> pronounced in an American English way. And again, even
> though US English is widely imitated now in some
> non-English-speaking countries, it is still not considered 
> to be
> the standard English in many English-speaking countries 
> now.
>
> But I admit I have problems with pronouncing the correct
> sound. So I just pronounce it as "R O H S".


I know that many people will dispute this clear and obvious 
factual clarification :-)

The ONLY "correct" pronunciation of any acronym is the 
naming of its individual letters sequentially. Anything else 
is local interpretation.
Hence we don't have IB-IM or eye-BIM or IB-em or whatever. 
We just have I. B. M.
We also don't have ICK-BIMs, ICKIB-EMS, eye-CIB-ems and the 
like. We have I. C. B. M. s.
Right ?
:-)

The result may change with speakers maiden tongue.;-)
My favourite motorcycle of years gone by was
    to me always a SEE ZED
    to USAians it was a SEE ZEE
    and to the Czechs, who should know, as they make them, 
it was something unpronounceable to me that sounded summat 
like CHAY ZUDD.
    That's all short for the abbreviation of Ceske Zavode 
(add speech marks as requisite) to C.Z.

SO (he argued)[tm]
the ONLY way to pronounce ROHS sensibly is R. O. H. S.
Which is the only way that I have ever heard it said, FWIW.

Here that's AR OH AITCH ESS
In Oz it's AR OH Haitch ESS.
Elsewhere it's ... ?

But, as I said, I know that many people will dispute this 
clear and obvious factual clarification :-)



            Russell





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