Does anyone know how to say YCYC as an acronym in a sentence?

[joy_of_cooking]

Wikipedia says the Yale Corinthian Yacht Club is abbreviated YCYC and pronounced "yick yick". Does anyone know whether that's "the yick yick" or just "yick yick"?

E.g., would a Yalie say, "I sailed with yick yick" or "I sailed with the yick yick"?

(I'm working on a story with a Yale sailor.)

 

[Britva415]

If it's yicyic, people say "the." If it's y, c, y, c, they don't say "the."

Also, no yacht club member talks about sailing "with" the yacht club. They might talk about sailing with a particular club's club racing team, if such a thing even exists, but that's sailing "with" the team, not with the club. They'd say they sailed "at" the yicyic.

The Yale University sailing team is the Bulldogs, so, if YCYC does have a club sailing team, Yalies don't generally sail with it - not as Yalies per se, anyway. The club is public, it's just named for Yale and the Bulldogs use the public facilities there.

 

[Fatdog25]

From the news articles I found, they had it as "the YCYC" and not "The YCYC" or "TYCYC". For me, I'd go with "yic-yic", the way Wikipedia had it.

 

[joy_of_cooking]

Wow, 15 minutes! Thank you, @Britva415 !