# How do you pronounce MPSIMS? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 16, 2004, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/229461 "2004-02-16T08:41:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/229461/21 "2004-02-16T23:00:28Z")
I’m the only one who says IMP-sims? ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/229461/22 "2004-02-16T23:02:11Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > em-pee-SIMS Me too, given that sims is a word to me…Can’t wait for the second game 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/229461/23 "2004-02-16T23:02:08Z")
I always pronounced it em-pee-sims. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/229461/24 "2004-02-16T23:12:53Z")
Impy-sims. It just sounds right that way–perhaps the impious and impish shenanigans we sometimes get up to here has something to do with it. ---
**Author:** ![chattywine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5daacb/32.png) [@chattywine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chattywine)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/229461/25 "2004-02-16T23:28:33Z")
I’ve always read it as Em-Pizzems, as if related somehow to Auntie Em. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2004, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/229461/26 "2004-02-17T00:34:32Z")
Em-P-Sims. Or “you know, the fun forum!” ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2004, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/229461/27 "2004-02-17T01:31:53Z")
Em-pee-ess-i-emz ---
**Author:** ![foxymoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d26b3c/32.png) [@foxymoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foxymoron)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2004, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/229461/28 "2004-02-17T01:54:05Z")
I used to hear it (in my head) “mundane pointless dot dot dot […]” until **leenmi** told me he hears it “MIP-sims” and now that’s how I hear it too. ---
**Author:** ![Squonk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squonk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squonk)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2004, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/229461/29 "2004-02-17T05:26:37Z")
EM-pih-zims, which I think is the same as **chattywine** ’s Em-Pizzems. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2004, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/229461/30 "2004-02-17T06:05:42Z")
One more vote for “Em-pee-simz”. Of course, there’s the snooty-soundin’ “Gee-Kew” (GQ) or the Imperial Army-soundin’ “AT-Emm Bee”. Tripler “Luke, use the Pit. Use the Pit, Luke. . .” ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2004, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/229461/31 "2004-02-17T06:13:58Z")
Mipsims. It has to be ran altogether. ---
**Author:** ![Phnord\_Prephect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/df705f/32.png) [@Phnord\_Prephect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phnord_Prephect)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2004, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/229461/32 "2004-02-17T06:20:00Z")
MISS-Piz-zums. I know it’s wrong, and when I stop and think about it I can read it as Mip-Sims, or even M-P-S-I-M-S. But if I just sorta glance at it on the way in and don’t give it any thought at all (my normal state of being it seems) it’s Ms. P’zms. ---
**Author:** ![acrossthesea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@acrossthesea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/acrossthesea)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2004, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/229461/33 "2004-02-17T12:14:27Z")
Emp-sims, even though that’s kind of wrong, and emp-sizms, even though that’s worse, because my brain always adds an extra s in there. ---
**Author:** ![zuma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9c0ed/32.png) [@zuma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zuma)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2004, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/229461/34 "2004-02-17T13:24:25Z")
em-pee-ess generally, altho I can’t really remember most times (actually, I’ve comepletely forgotten… mundane pointless something…) what it stands for, so I sometimes read the anagram is “more pointless shit i must say”. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2004, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/229461/35 "2004-02-17T13:29:09Z")
It’s emm pee sims for me too. I’m very surprised at the various responses here. Guess I’ll need to attend a Dopefest to understand your jargon! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Broken\_Doll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbce88/32.png) [@Broken\_Doll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broken_Doll)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2004, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/229461/36 "2004-02-17T17:24:00Z")
I’m another em-pisms…though no matter how I try to say it, it always ends up jumbled… ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2004, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/229461/37 "2004-02-17T19:27:14Z")
EM - PUH -sims It’s the only way that makes sense 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2004, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/229461/38 "2004-02-17T19:46:20Z")
‘Malapropisms’ What? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2004, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/229461/39 "2004-02-17T20:44:40Z")
For awhile I misread it as “miss-pizzums” (you too, huh, **Phnord**?), but now I’ve trained myself to mentally pronounce it “mip-sims.” ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2004, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/229461/40 "2004-02-17T21:23:08Z")
I drop the M, leaving a nice, clean, _'pizzims_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/229461.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/229461.md?page=3)