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It was stated that we (the engineering community) felt that they had
positioned themselves for ridicule for a long time by using such a "cute
and frivolous" name for the unit of reciprocal resistance (1/OHM = MHO).
Further, the use of the inverted upper case omega to symbolically
represent the unit just exacerbated the problem.