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BECMI pronunciation?

Started by Joey2k, January 19, 2025, 01:15:10 AM

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Joey2k

January 19, 2025, 01:15:10 AM
Just curious, I've always pronounced each letter individually but I've recently watched a few videos where they pronounced it "Beck Me" as if it was a word. How do you pronounce it?
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Ratman_tf

#1
January 19, 2025, 02:18:00 AM
I spell it out. But I usually refer to it as Basic D&D.
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a_wanderer

#2
January 19, 2025, 03:45:09 AM
as one word.

yosemitemike

#3
January 19, 2025, 05:21:25 AM
I don't see it as an acronym and don't pronounce it at all.
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JasperAK

#4
January 19, 2025, 06:44:48 AM
I pronounce it, 'Bee-ecks,' or on occasion, 'Moldvay-Cook'

S'mon

#5
January 19, 2025, 07:45:58 AM
Beck-Me
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Thornhammer

#6
January 19, 2025, 09:26:30 AM
Beck-Me. Sometimes "color box series."

Chris24601

#7
January 19, 2025, 10:43:18 AM
I say each letter individually; Bee E See Em I.

ForgottenF

#8
January 19, 2025, 12:27:40 PM
"Oh. My. God. BECMI, Look at her butt!"
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weirdguy564

#9
January 19, 2025, 02:17:32 PM
People call it Beck-me, or Basic Edition, Moldvay-Cook for the two authors, or just Basic Expert. 

They're all synonyms.
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#10
January 20, 2025, 01:37:45 AM
Spelled out. B E C M I. or Mentzer edition

Not to be confused with B/X which is Moldvay/Cook

or the Rules Cyclopedia which is Aaron Allston.

Holmes is easy, it's just his name for his edition.
 

Teodrik

#11
January 20, 2025, 04:59:42 AM
Beck-Me

Chris24601

#12
January 20, 2025, 07:47:16 AM
The big question is whether you consider it an acronym or an initialism.

The former is generally when you try to make it something roughly like a real word.

"What does SHIELD stand for?"
"Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement, and Logistics Division"
"And what does that mean to you?"
"That someone really wanted it spell SHIELD."

A real world example would be FEMA or NASA.

An initialism is just a grouping of the initials and pronounced as the letters because it doesn't look like a word... ex. FBI, CIA, DOJ.

For me BECMI feels like an initialism  (I think mostly because you never see a C next to an M like that in English) so I pronounce it as such.

Reckall

#13
January 20, 2025, 12:01:55 PM
If you read it in Italian, it is "Beck Me".

But we also call the CIA the "Chi-Ah"...

However, for some reason, FBI is spelled with the original English spelling even in Italian.
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#14
January 20, 2025, 01:24:35 PM
Beck Me.
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