How do you pronounce LED?
When talking about a light-emitting diode, how do you personally pronounce the acronym LED?
1. Each letter separately, as in ELL-EE-DEE.
2. As one word LED, rhyming with bed and sounding like the toxic soft metal lead.
3. I never use the acronym and always say all the words light-emitting diode.
4. Something else (please describe), or variable between the first 3 depending on the context of the conversation or however the wordy noises fall out of my face at that moment.
Note that I might cross-post this in the "Words & Wordplay" and/or the electronics or science categories if there isn't enough response here in the Polls section.
Shara: I wrote out ELL-EE-DEE as a phonetic description of the pronunciation of those individual letters L E D.