# How do YOU pronounce "MPSIMS"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 14, 2000, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/14889 "2000-03-14T21:08:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![SqrlCub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SqrlCub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SqrlCub)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/14889/41 "2000-03-15T15:38:00Z")
I go between mipsims and empsims. It just depends on my mood. I think beatle had the right idea though and will probably start calling it Mickey Pee’s. 🙂 Love ya beatle. HUGS! Sqrl * * * [SqrlCub’s Arizona Adventure](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/005351.html) ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/14889/42 "2000-03-15T16:22:00Z")
Alas, there is but one shining ray of hope in the bunch. Scarlett _almost_ got it, just misplacing the emphasis. the correct pronunciation is “EM-puh-sims”. Accept no substitute. ::Looking up, Brady style:: Hi, Sqrl! How’s tricks? * * * Sig! Sig a Sog! Sig it loud! Sig it Strog! – Karen Carpenter with a head cold ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/14889/43 "2000-03-15T16:28:00Z")
I call it “medical research” especially when my boss is around! * * * Teacher, my red crayon tastes funny – Ralph Wiggum ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/14889/44 "2000-03-15T16:36:00Z")
Em - pea -ess - isms ## Short for Mundane-Pointless-Shit-isims. Of course, I’ve never pronounced it out loud. Hearing myself do so might induce me to change my mind. Once in a while you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right… ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/14889/45 "2000-03-16T04:31:00Z")
Either “Em Pee Ess Eye Em Ess” or “Mundane Pointless”/“Mundane Pointless Stuff”. * * * Your Official Cat Goddess since 10/20/99. _SD chat:_ **\** Kat’s here! the board must be down! ---
**Author:** ![PurpleCrackwhore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc348/32.png) [@PurpleCrackwhore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleCrackwhore)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/14889/46 "2000-03-16T06:56:00Z")
I just slowly stutter over it and add or however you pronounce it. * * * I really try to be good but it just isn’t in my nature! ---
**Author:** ![Lexicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ac8455/32.png) [@Lexicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lexicon)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/14889/47 "2000-03-16T07:04:00Z")
All the dopers here @ work (basically kinoons, crackwise, and I) call it “PMS”. I don’t know why. Someone said it, and it just stuck. * * * “Winners never quit and quitters never win, but those who never win and never quit are idiots.” ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2000, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/14889/48 "2000-03-18T21:17:00Z")
I have started pronouncing it muh-puh-SIMMZZ. (The first two syllables are almost totally suppressed.) ---
**Author:** ![EnigmaOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EnigmaOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnigmaOne)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2000, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/14889/49 "2000-03-18T21:56:00Z")
I call it the “Funny Pages.” ---
**Author:** ![eggo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@eggo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eggo)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2000, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/14889/50 "2000-03-19T01:33:00Z")
nonono. you people have it all wrong, it is an un-pronoucable symbol. or at least it used to be, for a while people called it “the board formerly known as Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share”. now it prefers to be called “the board” * * * eggo My Web Page:[SMITE](http://www.angelfire.com/yt/smite) _WARNING_ it may offend you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/14889.md?page=2)