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"Tee Oh Ess" or "Toss"?

TOS: How do you say it?

  • "Tee Oh Ess"

    Votes: 60 73.2%
  • "Toss"

    Votes: 22 26.8%

  • Total voters
    82
This thread really changed the way I talk about Trek. I don't get to do that often in RL, mind you, but it really did.
 
I say Tee Oh Ess. "Toss" sounds wrong to me...like tossing one's cookies (eww).

BTW, I'm very new here and a bit disoriented (not used to the site yet)...but I just wanted to say hello! :)
 
Hi MS., glad to see you decided to follow my advice and come here...:beer: Bones here felt a bit lonely.. ;)
 
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served! :)
 
^ Whoo hoo...thanks, my friend! :)

I don't want to be bad by spamming this thread with Bones. Is there a McCoy thread anywhere?
 
TOS as T-O-S. It's a product of the other series being abbreviated TNG & DS9 (... and VOY, ENT to keep the 3 letter abbreviations up). TNG is pronounced tee 'n gee, not !tng or something. DS9, never heard anyone say dess nine.
 
I refer to it by it's proper name: Star Trek. Abbreviate it in posts as "ST" and refer to the franchise as "Trek".
 
Tee Oh Ess
Tee En Gee
Dee Ess Nine
Voyager
Enterprise

That's how I pronounce them all. I don't like "toss" and I can't imagine saying "voy" either. Or "ent" for that matter.
 
I say TOS just because it is the "natural" pronounciation for my language (which is not English)
 
I read it as T-O-S and pronounce it as The Original Series. Now that I've for the first time ever actually thought about it.
 
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