So, from then on, I was very distinctive. ![]() The first time I called APBA (which was in the 1990s) I was fascinated by hearing Fritz (after hours answering machine) pronounce APP-BAAH, so distinctively. He looked at it and said, "who cares?" Oh. I showed him, "never, no never, call it A-P-B-A". I told him he should not call it that, and I would bring in the paper where the company said so. In junior high (1978, I would guess, after I bought my first game and set), a friend also played, but he called it A-P-B-A. This was 1972-1977, when my brother moved out of the house. in fact, I think we both put an "M" sound in there somewhere over time (or maybe just me). ![]() In Covina, California (a long way from Lancaster, PA), my brother taught the game to me as AP-PAH. ![]() It seems, in general, that the farther west you go from Lancaster the more apt a player is to call it A-P-B-A (because, I think, the more likely it is that they never heard anyone pronounce it, they just read it on the box).
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