Apptech wrote:

> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

I can't believe I'm doing this:
Russell, Mr. Pedantic, an acronym is actually a subset of an
abbreviation that is supposed to be a pronounceable word, like RADAR or
LASER. Now, I don't know if RoHS is supposed to be an acronym, but if
not, it's just an abbreviation.
-
Martin
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