Originally Posted by
msu2001la
2. Do people really say/write "Spesh" as some kind of shorthand for Specialized? Why not Special? Or Spec? Just seems weird.
Spesh is a pretty common shorthand, in the UK at least. “Special”wouldn’t work on a number of levels. Being a complete word in its own right would make it confusing eg. That Special bike I saw yesterday was awesome/*****! “Spec” doesn’t really work either as you would pronounce it “speck” and it already has a different meaning ie short for “specification”.