HELP NEEDED: How you pronounce pUC?

[brett]

>The question may be crazy for everyone. I have a colleague, who insists, that
>everyone she knows pronounce it as "puc" [pak]. I am not sure it is the right
>way. I have never ever heard other way than [pi-ju-si']. Both of us is in
>cloning for years, and coming from different places. Please help us, because we
>are fighting, and getting tired of this. Make your vote!! Thanks, Hanna
>
>[PUK]

We are agonizing over this one...how do you pronounce CIAP? Is it "sip", or
"kip", or "see-eye-aye-pee", or just "phosphatase", or "alk-phos"?
Please reply immediately, before we tear our hair out.


Brett Lindenbach
    
Program in Immunology                              
Washington University - St Louis                  
brett at borcim.wustl.edu                             

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