ob-gyn

[James A. Landau]

In a message dated 8/27/02 10:05:24 AM Eastern Daylight Time, douglas at NB.NET
writes:

> Maybe it's regional or even specific to certain hospitals, colleges, etc.
>  I've heard mostly the "O, B, G, Y, N" version. The second most frequent in
>  my experience is "ob-gynie" /abgaini/. I think I have heard "ob-gyn"
>  /abgain/ but only very seldom.

My wife is an OB-Gyn nurse, and she always says /oh bee jin/ or occasionally
spells it out /oh bee jee wai en/.  I've never heard a two-syllable version
such as /ahb jin/.

Just remember that a certain Jedi Knight was married to a midwife, the famous
Obi-Gyn Kenobi

>  What about "ear-nose-throat" > "ENT": always "E, N, T", I think, never
>  "ent" /Ent/, in my experience. Perhaps in some other town there are such
>  ents, though?

Part II of "Lord of the Rings"

      - Jim Landau