Toronto art institution question: how do you pronounce ROM and AGO and why? Both are acronyms… 🤷‍♂️

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2024-07-04 12:54

Toronto art institution question: how do you pronounce ROM and AGO and why? Both are acronyms… 🤷‍♂️

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4 分鐘內	Alexander Anthony Jowett jowieepics	And acronyms are supposed to be pronounced as words (not individual letters!
2 小時內	David Swart dmswart1	I say ROM like "bomb" and AGO like "A. G. O."
3 小時內	joel 📴 joelschellenberger	How about “UP Express” being U-P to some but 🆙 to others?
6 小時內	Liz Horbatiuk-Gagnon lizhorbatiukgagnon	ROM Royal Ontario Museum and AGO Art Gallery of Ontario
7 小時內	Tara Styles tarawithstyles	Rom because it can be easily said as if it’s a word. A-G-O because ago is a word already so that would just be confusing.
9 小時內	Sabrena sabrenae	ROM and aye-gee-ooh
13 小時內	Katarina Gligorijevic katarinag	This is hard for me to articulate clearly but … I think the reason AGO is pronounced as initials has something to do with the fact that as a word “ago” is pronounced with the stress on “go” and as an acronym intuitively it feels like the stress should be on the “a” - like it should be pronounced “ah-go” and not like the word “ago.” And something about that feels weird and stupid. So we default to A-G-O.
一天內	debra sadowski ✌🏻 rockitdeb	🤔 i've literally never thought about this before! would be so weird to call it R.O.M. or, the ago. Marketing/PR led the way on these calls, I bet!