An essential and infrequently discussed topic

[YayPudding]

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[deleted610572]

How is this essential?

 

[YayPudding]

How is this essential?

I was being sarcastic, but I can see this perhaps worrying interviewees. As an example, I bit my tongue pretty hard at my CCOM interview. I recognized that the way I would have pronounced it sounds like a the start of the large intestine 😀

 

[deleted610572]

They pronounce it both ways

 

[JB50]

Dude you need to go back to school.








































































































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[ananasmed]

CCOM is definitely See see oh em, but I think I've heard other schools use the "com/calm" pronunciation lol

 

[MADD!!!]

I believe it's school specific. PCOM is pronounced P.C.O.M. but CUSOM is pronounced at "KUSOM"

 

[pseud0]

^idk why you'd say that, I've been pronouncing everything "PEE-COM" "KEW-SOM" "NYE-COM" etc

 

[Geo16]

If I earn billions of dollars, I'll make a med school called COM at-MEBRO.
(College of Osteopathic Medicine at Maine: Bangor, Rockland & Orono)

 

[Mad Jack]

COM/cahm is the appropriate pronunciation.

 

[getfat]

I've been pronouncing everything "PEE-COM"

I remember being specifically told to pronounce it as @MADD!!! mentioned but i think they are just concerned the acronym being associated with a phallus.

 

[MADD!!!]

^idk why you'd say that, I've been pronouncing everything "PEE-COM" "KEW-SOM" "NYE-COM" etc

Just because you've been pronouncing it that way doesn't mean it's the correct pronunciation

 

[Goro]

EVERY one of my faculty colleagues, and students, and myself, use the word "COM" (as in, Mr Sulu, you have the com").

People will sound out the letters before the "COM"...for example, K-COM, A-Z-COM, or T-COM, but we also say TUN-COM, or Nova-COM.

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[Lawpy]

EVERY one of my faculty colleagues, and students, and myself, use the word "COM" (as in, Mr Sulu, you have the com").

People will sound out the letters before the "COM"...for example, K-COM, A-Z-COM, or T-COM, but we also say TUN-COM, or Nova-COM.

this makes sense. that's why i always believe DUCOM and AECOM are secretly DO schools 😉

 

[Goro]

The folks from KCOM are rather fussy: "It's Kirksville, not KCOM!"

this makes sense. that's why i always believe DUCOM and AECOM are secretly DO schools 😉

 

[YayPudding]

If I earn billions of dollars, I'll make a med school called COM at-MEBRO.
(College of Osteopathic Medicine at Maine: Bangor, Rockland & Orono)

Took me over 24 hours to get it.