How do you pronounce Amex?

[seagullmouse]

How do you pronounce the 'Am' bit of Amex?

Is it
1: Amex as in Amy?
2: Amex as in the Ham?

I have been saying 1 but now think I am wrong.

 

[Sheebo]

2) HAMex

Thought to be fair I usually just call it Falmer - and prob always will - It's stuck after 10 or so yrs of campaigning!

 

[GOM]

How do you pronounce the 'Am' bit of Amex?

Is it
1: Amex as in Amy?
2: Amex as in the Ham?

I have been saying 1 but now think I am wrong.

You are quite right, you are wrong

 

[Albumen]

WTF?
Do you say Aymerican?

 

[Curly5194]

How do you pronounce the 'Am' bit of Amex?

Is it
1: Amex as in Amy?
2: Amex as in the Ham?

I have been saying 1 but now think I am wrong.

Amex is short of course for American Express, so how do you pronounce "American"? Therefore it should surely be option 2, pronounced "Am Ex".

 

[clippedgull]

2.

Although I could say the AC Stadium as the first two letter are my initials!

 

[Badger]

How would you pronounce American?

Damn beaten to it!

 

[Wozza]

How do you pronounce the 'Am' bit of Amex?

Is it
1: Amex as in Amy?
2: Amex as in the Ham?

I have been saying 1 but now think I am wrong.

Well, it's short for AMerican EXpress. There's a clue.

 

[Curly5194]

Don't you love it when we ALL pull together with the same answer!

 

[seagullmouse]

AWesome thanks, need to retrain brain now. You are right - could just say Falmer, wonder if people will say Amex or Falmer?

 

[sam86]

Jesus Christ.

 

[seagullmouse]

Yep - my bad.

Sure I've heard people say do you take Amex with the Aymex pronouciation, happy to put it down to my extreme stupidity though.

 

[We're the Stripes]

^ All true, of course. But if you were to look at it, and you didn't know it was short for American Express, I bet the majority would assume it's pronounced "Ay-mex". So I can partially understand why some might think it could be pronounced like that.

But of course it IS short of American Express, so it's a rather moot point!

 

[Hillian1]

Jesus Christ.

Blasphemy, stone him...!!!

 

[lighthouse]

^ All true, of course. But if you were to look at it, and you didn't know it was short for American Express, I bet the majority would assume it's pronounced "Ay-mex". So I can partially understand why some might think it could be pronounced like that.

But of course it IS short of American Express, so it's a rather moot point!

ees complicated

 

[Titanic]

AmECS.

 

[pasty]

This used to really wind me up when I worked there. Even some of my ex-colleagues used to pronounce it A-Mex

 

[Albumen]

I say aMex, as in a mexican.

 

[footychick]

I always say The Aymex

 

[seagullmouse]

I always say The Aymex

So its not just me then! Yay!