[time-nuts] New clock

[jimlux]

On 1/19/11 2:18 PM, Rex wrote:
> On 1/19/2011 11:39 AM, lstoskopf at cox.net wrote:
>> Have an extra $1,500?
>>
>> http://www.symmetricom.com/products/frequency-references/chip-scale-atomic-clock-csac/SA.45s-CSAC/
>>
>>
>> N0UU
>>
>
> Did you miss the many earlier messages on this list?
>
> They actually had a PR blurb about this on the local TV news this
> morning (San Francisco, Cal), with a smiling Symmetricom guy holding one
> for the camera. The local announcer pronounced the company name as
> symmetry-com. It should be symmetric-com, shouldn't it?

When I've talked to them on the phone, they've pronounced it:
  sih meh' trih comm

(all short i or schwa sounds... no long e)

Mind you, this is in California, where we pronounce cot and caught 
exactly the same way.