# How Do You Pronouce MPSIMS? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 21, 2004, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronouce-mpsims/270470 "2004-10-21T19:28:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronouce-mpsims/270470/1 "2004-10-21T19:28:18Z")
To prevent further hijacking [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5394917), I’ll pose the question in it’s proper forum. MPSIMS, when I read the name, is pronounced “Em-Pee-Sims”. This is, of course, the one true and correct way of pronouncing it. However, the linked thread shows that many people mispronounce it. So what’s _your_ way of pronouncing “MPSIMS”? ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronouce-mpsims/270470/2 "2004-10-21T19:28:58Z")
IMP sims. ---
**Author:** ![Redwing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dfb087/32.png) [@Redwing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redwing)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronouce-mpsims/270470/3 "2004-10-21T19:30:14Z")
mipsums ---
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronouce-mpsims/270470/4 "2004-10-21T19:31:22Z")
Mip-sims ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronouce-mpsims/270470/5 "2004-10-21T19:31:50Z")
M-P- Sims, and I always think of the game when I think of how to say it. Plus that’s the only way I remember the order of the letter, or I come out with things like MSPIMS ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronouce-mpsims/270470/6 "2004-10-21T19:32:20Z")
I always figured it was “mipsims” ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronouce-mpsims/270470/7 "2004-10-21T19:36:54Z")
Mip-Sims. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronouce-mpsims/270470/8 "2004-10-21T19:45:20Z")
You’re all wrong. It’s “MmmmmmP-SIMS.” Although the “mmmmmm” isn’t that long, I just made it that long song you’d realize how it sounded. How could it be mip-sims? There’s no vowel in there! Stop adding vowels! ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronouce-mpsims/270470/9 "2004-10-21T19:50:04Z")
I second mmmp-sims. If I’m saying it out loud to somebody else, it comes out more like “emp-sims”, though. Of course, while my schoolmates were fond of referring to lbs. and oz. as “libs” and “oozes”, I always preferred “ulbs” and “oz” (plural or singular), so whatever part of my brain processes odd abbreviation pronunciation is probably messed up. ---
**Author:** ![pestie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e5b9ba/32.png) [@pestie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pestie)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronouce-mpsims/270470/10 "2004-10-21T19:52:29Z")
Count me as another vote for “em pee simz.” ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronouce-mpsims/270470/11 "2004-10-21T19:57:15Z")
Like a scotish name McSims, but with p sound replacing the c, or like mupsims with the least possible u sound. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronouce-mpsims/270470/12 "2004-10-21T20:13:02Z")
Like a scotish name McSims, but with p sound replacing the c, or like mupsims with the least possible u sound. ---
**Author:** ![PigBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/97f17d/32.png) [@PigBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PigBoy)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronouce-mpsims/270470/13 "2004-10-21T20:19:53Z")
It was em-pee-sims for me at first, but then when I saw one of these threads (a thread asking this same question, that is) at some point probably back in 2000, I first learned of the “mip-sims” pronunciation and that one somehow became permanently lodged in my brain. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronouce-mpsims/270470/14 "2004-10-21T20:32:42Z")
Oh, all right: It’s pronounced “map-sih-meyes”. I just can’t keep secrets. I apologize to the gerbils or whoever. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronouce-mpsims/270470/15 "2004-10-21T21:42:42Z")
The land between your opinion and the pit. ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronouce-mpsims/270470/16 "2004-10-21T22:00:40Z")
“Emm Pee Ess Eye Emm Ess.” It’s got a nice singsongy quality to it. ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronouce-mpsims/270470/17 "2004-10-21T22:33:18Z")
It’s MIP-sims for me. ---
**Author:** ![tesseract](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@tesseract](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tesseract)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronouce-mpsims/270470/18 "2004-10-21T23:27:32Z")
> [@Ace309](#): > > “Emm Pee Ess Eye Emm Ess.” Me too, but now that I’ve read this thread, I’ll probably change to mip-sims because I won’t be able to help it. It never even occurred to me that people would pronounce it any other way, for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronouce-mpsims/270470/19 "2004-10-21T23:43:25Z")
Another vote for MIP-sims here. No, there isn’t an “I” in it but that’s the nature of pronouncing unpronounceable acronyms – you stick in vowel sounds wherever necessary. ---
**Author:** ![Phelan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Phelan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phelan)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronouce-mpsims/270470/20 "2004-10-21T23:47:14Z")
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