[Libs-Or] Pronounce "pbook".

[hleman at samhealth.org]

Hi, Jim. Good question--I would go with "pee-book" or "fook." Neither sounds ideal!

Hope
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From: Jim Knutson [tintin at exchangenet.net]
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 6:00 AM
To: Hope Leman; libs-or at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
Subject: Pronounce "pbook".

Wouldn't ya know the invented new word would be unpronounceable. Strictly a print word, not a spoken word.

Gonna have to change it if it's something we're going to ask patrons. "Are you looking for that as pbook or an e-book?"

Unless we just start submitting notes to them. But they still say, "What is a pbook? It says right here 'Are you looking for a pbook?' What is a pbook?" (Reminds me of the "gub" gag in Woody Allen's Take the Money and Run. Arguing with Allen as bank robber who's submitted the teller a note, the teller and others are telling him, "No, it says right here, 'I have a gub.' What is a gub?"

A pbook? Or is it a silent "p", as in pneumonia? What's the rule on "p before b"?

RE:

From: hleman at samhealth.org<mailto:hleman at samhealth.org>
To: libs-or at listsmart.osl.state.or.us<mailto:libs-or at listsmart.osl.state.or.us>
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 5:03 AM
Subject: [Libs-Or] Interesting article by our own Buzzy Nielsen

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I found this sentence, for instance, quite interesting, "...print books (hereafter referred to as pbooks when it is important to distinguish them from electronic books, or ebooks)."

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Hope Leman, MLIS
Research Information Technologist
Center for Health Research and Quality
Samaritan Health Services

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