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In article <1992Jul23.041525.5250@qiclab.scn.rain.com> 70465.203@compuserve.com writes:
[I said the 'SYSOP' pronunciation rule is stupid because there are many 
counterexamples]
}Neither of your counter examples applies. They are both *acronyms*
}constructed from the initial letters of a phrase. In such cases, prounciation
}is pretty much determined by what it looks like.
}
}On the other hand, "sysop" is formed by combining *syllables*. It's in
}effect a contraction of the words "system operator". And the path may 
}have been that system got frequently shortened to "sys" and operator
}got shortened to "op". *Then* they got combined.

	To be absolutely completely picky, here is the description of 
acronym from the online webster dictionary.
ac.ro.nym \'ak-r*-.nim\ n [acr- + -onym (as in homonym)] : a word (as
   radar, snafu) formed from the initial letter or letters of each of the
   successive parts or major parts of a compound term

	So to be completely technical, "sysop" IS an acronym because sys
and op are the initial letters of each word in a compound term.
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