Against extra vowels and syllables

People keep needlessly adding vowels to things, and I think it'd be better if they didn't. The other day my roommate Geoff received a package via the US Postal Service -- the USPS. He decidedly to jokingly pronounce this initialism as if it were a word -- "uspis", he said. (Sorry, no, I'm not going to bother with IPA or anything here.) Except... "uspis"? No. That should be "usps". One syllable.…