It&#039;s PRIV, like PRIVILEGED, and while it might be short for PRIVATE, pronouncing it to rhyme with jive is retarded.<br /><br />Then again, the word &quot;live&quot; has a similar situation. The cool thing there is that &quot;live&quot; as in alive and &quot;live&quot; as in to stay living mean different things. So here is what we can do. The &quot;Priv&quot; that rhymes with jive can mean &quot;I&#039;m a big gayo and sound like it when I try to abbreviate private,&quot; while &quot;Priv&quot; that rhymes with give can mean &quot;Hey guys come play some organized ctf.&quot; We as a community can use the context to decide which is which, just like English speakers use context to differentiate the two forms of &quot;live&quot;.<br /><br />Woo!