WAAS .. tricky acronym
Could somebody please tell me how to pronounce the acronym 'WAAS' (wide area augmentation system)?
FORVO didn't help much with this ... they treat 'WAAS' as an abbreviation, not acronym.
Never heard native English speakers pronouncing 'WAAS'... A colleague of mine ( Russian national) believes it should be something like 'wa-a-a-z'?
Sorry to ask you THIS kind of question ( 100% technical jargon :-)
Thank you!
Vladimir
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Hello, Vladimir, this combination has not yet been codified in major pronunciation dictionaries, perhaps due to the narrowness of its use outside technical areas; therefore, we should resort to analogy. Thus, acronyms of a similar type (featuring consonant + vowel + vowel + consonant ), including WAAC and WAAF, are pronounced as follows: WAAC ( Women's Army Auxiliary Corps) - [wæk] WAAF ( Women's Auxiliary Air Force) - [wæf] , from which it stems that a possible pronunciation of the combination in question is [wæs] , although it is still unclear whether this term has transcended the boundaries of a mere abbreviation and become a real acronym. Respectfully, Gleb Chebrikoff
- Hello, Vladimir, this combination has not yet been codified in major pronunciation dictionaries, perhaps due to the narrowness of its use outside technical areas; therefore, we should resort to analogy.
- Thus, acronyms of a similar type (featuring consonant + vowel + vowel + consonant ), including WAAC and WAAF, are pronounced as follows: WAAC ( Women's Army Auxiliary Corps) - [wæk] WAAF ( Women's Auxiliary Air Force) - [wæf] , from which it stems that a possible pronunciation of the combination in question is [wæs] , although it is still unclear whether this term has transcended the boundaries of a mere abbreviation and become a real acronym.
- Respectfully, Gleb Chebrikoff
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this combination has not yet been codified in major pronunciation dictionaries, perhaps due to the narrowness of its use outside technical areas; therefore, we should resort to analogy.
Thus, acronyms of a similar type (featuring consonant + vowel + vowel + consonant), including WAAC and WAAF, are pronounced as follows:
WAAC (Women's Army
0<< Hmm, this acronym is new to me,
USA is a car culture :-) Many cars are equipped with GPS. Most car navigators use GPS and WAAS. ( WAAS is something that allows your GPS navigator to perform better [ = higher accuracy and reliability ] ). In short, I guess you can often hear WAAS in conjunction with GPS?
0THanks for pointing to the similar pronunciation patterns ( WAAC and WAAF ).
It is good "food for thought"!
Cheers,
Vladimir
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