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The Pronunciation of MAGIP

  • 07-Jan-10 11:52
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    Message # 265108
    Erin Geraghty (administrator)

    Hey Folks!  Get chatting!  Post your General Discussions here! 

    How is one supposed pronounce the acronym “MAGIP” for our association???

    MAGIP with the short ‘a’ and soft ‘g’ -  ma-jip
    MAGIP with the short ‘a’ and hard ‘g’ -  ma-gip
    MAGIP with the long ‘a’ and soft ‘g’ - mā-jip
    MAGIP with the long ‘a’ and hard ‘g’ - mā-gip

    What is your opinion?

    Last modified: 07-Jan-10 11:54 | Erin Geraghty (administrator)
  • 12-Jan-10 13:36
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    Reply # 267556 on 265108
    Gerry Daumiller

     

    MAGIP with the long ‘a’ and hard ‘g’ - mā-gip

    Anything else is just evil
  • 19-Jan-10 16:33
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    Reply # 270858 on 265108
    Wendy Thingelstad

    I agree with Gerry,

    MAGIP with the long ‘a’ and hard ‘g’ - mā-gip

     
  • 21-Jan-10 13:58
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    Reply # 272013 on 265108
    Tom Golnar

    MAGIP with the short ‘a’ and soft ‘g’ -  ma-jip
    as in : Do you believe in Magip...

    you know you love that jingle (or at least can't get it out of your head)

    you could even have it playing in the background on the website and at conferences

    or maybe just be a little more direct and call it MT GIS
  • 25-Jan-10 12:53
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    Reply # 273839 on 265108
    anonymous

    So MAGIP is pronounced "May-Gip"... the second part is like PIG backwards?

    Just teasing guys...

  • 28-Jan-10 09:20
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    Reply # 275478 on 265108
    Mindy Cochran
    I recall reading through the meeting minutes from the first-ever MAGIP meeting and the board at that time adopted the pronounciation with a long 'a' and hard 'g.'
  • 01-Feb-10 08:43
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    Reply # 277435 on 265108
    Gerald Daumiller

    I was a board member at that meeting. That is what we decided, so all you new people should stop trying to change it!!!  :0)

    We tried and tried to come up with a name whose acronym would be MAGPIE, but we couldn't.
  • 01-Feb-10 14:10
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    Reply # 277643 on 265108
    Chuck Fahner
    Opps --I guess I've been way off - I 've been saying mag-I,P -- too many years in IT apparently.
  • 09-Feb-10 11:31
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    Reply # 288650 on 265108
    Diane Papineau
    For years, hanging out in the Bozeman GIS scene, I was enculturated to pronounce it with a long a and soft g ("geography" has a soft g). Then Gerry set me straight. It seems there is a spatial component to this issue. How appropriate!
 
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