Acronym of renamed regulatory agency for cops must be pronounced "Tickle"

Let's get back into the post-holiday swing of things by delving into the really important stuff ... This year the legislature shortened the unwieldy moniker of the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education (TCLEOSE) - an agency known universally as "Tee-close," which oversees licensing and training of Texas law enforcement officers - to the admittedly less cumbersome Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCLE).

This brings up the question for anyone who deals with the agency: How to pronounce the new acronym? How do you say, "TCLE"? Agency folks are promoting the boring pronunciation "Tee-clee," which Grits finds utterly uninspiring. I prefer the suggestion from Rob Kepple at the Texas District and County Attorney's Association, who told the audience at the summer legislative update Grits attended that they're promoting the pronunciation of TCLE as "Tickle." That clearly the best choice by any rational criteria.

Grits earnestly encourages readers to promote the "Tickle" pronunciation of TCLE widely in every day use. And be sure to correct others around you if they pronounce it the other way. How else will they learn? ;)

The agency's name only just officially changed over the weekend. Now's the chance to make a less boring, more playful and pleasant nickname stick. And really, they brought it on themselves by choosing it, don't you think?