How do YOU pronounce Avsim?

[W2DR 1,860]

14 minutes ago, charliearon said:

Have another double, Doug! 🥃  I'll join you! 😀

Let's do it at the Iron Horse on Maiden Lane. I wasted many afternoons there in a prior life. God, what I would give to be back in 1972 again.......and I'll buy.

[Jude Bradley 659]

Always called it A-V Sim.

[charliearon 3,024]

23 minutes ago, Jude Bradley said:

Always called it A-V Sim.

Sounds good to me!  A-V.....Audio-Visual Sim 🤪

Hey, Jude! ......can't find the John Lennon emoji 😁

[enright 496]

You are all entitled to pronounce avsim in whatever way pleases you.

However, to settle the debate on the official pronunciation, I refer you to none other than the man himself (time = 1:46 in case the link doesn't skip directly to it) :

Rest in peace Tom, and thanks for creating a place for us wannabe (and actual) pilot nerds to debate silly topics such as the pronunciation of avsim.

 

[Chock 17,769]

As Tom does on that video, I've always called it AV-SIM (i.e. the first half of AVRO, with SIM tacked onto the end).

[Fielder 3,672]

Is this a clue?

 

[IanHarrison 522]

16 hours ago, Christopher Low said:

I am gonna be Charlie's wingman here. I have always referred to it as Ay-Vee-Sim.

Christopher, please see my other post "Speech vs written".😁

[IanHarrison 522]

12 hours ago, enright said:

 to debate silly topics such as the pronunciation of avsim.

 

At least there is now a definitive answer. So perhaps not so silly after all.

[phmcr 93]

I have always believed it to be a clever substitute for our beloved game 'F-SIM'. But since that was not a unique name, I assumed Tom spelled it like AVSIM.

 

[Ray Proudfoot 8,954]

Av as in "have" without the h. Just as Tom pronounced it.

[Penzoil3 480]

Charlie, we're out ranked. Tom would know.

[charliearon 3,024]

16 minutes ago, Penzoil3 said:

Charlie, we're out ranked. Tom would know.

I think We are in the minority on this one!  It's just how I have always done it!  If I were to bump into someone and learned they were a flightsimmer,  I would say I am a member of A V Sim.

[188AHC 2,138]

I communicated with many members over the years that called it Av, as in have, sim and I've always called it that. At the Orlando FSExpo I heard many people use the same pronunciation.

However, I don't think it really matters one way or the other. I think most simmers would know what you were talking about. 

 

[JRBarrett 3,070]

I pronounce it “Fred”

 

[n4gix 4,947]

On 5/13/2022 at 6:20 AM, Ray Proudfoot said:

Av as in "have" without the h. Just as Tom pronounced it.

Don't most Brits drop the "h" anyway?

"ave it your way mate!"