On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 06:26:43 -0500, Monty Arch <monarch00 at comcast.net> wrote: >How does one verbally say the term E.coli O157:H7? The O in O157 is the letter O. One does not say the colon; if you want, pause. So it is E coli O 1 5 7 <pause, or not> H 7 bob