Pronounciation of abbreviations

[Ray McCarthy]

If you can remember the 1960s, then you weren't really there.

Though watching The Man From UNCLE while on LSD would have perhaps been unusual.

 

[Ursa major]

Soon after posting about how the author can hint at how some abbreviations should be pronounced, abbreviations that start with some consonants, I recalled that the same is true, some of the time, for one of the vowels. (I'd have mentioned it earlier, but I was worried that it might provide a further hint for my entry in May's 75-word challenge.)

That vowel, you'll have already realised, is U. See how one can see how a word (let alone an abbreviation) beginning with U should be pronounced: a uniform; an uncle (as in an U.N.C.L.E. agent).

 

[Ray McCarthy]

A unicorn
An unconscious thought.

Never noticed the oddity of U before. I guess if uH or Uw sound?