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It can be pronounced though as I or eye or something.

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Yeah you can do that. You would be wrong and people around you would wonder why you switched the subject. But you can do that.

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But how many people would I need to convince to pronounce it for it to turn into an acronym?

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No. That’s how we end up with stupid sounding crap like (ugh) “Gooey” for GUI. Just say G-U-I or A-I.

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11 points

till (today I learned) some people say G - U - I and not gooey

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I’ve always said the letters and was surprised when I heard someone say ‘gooey’ when I entered college.

Still don’t like it.

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The first time I heard the term gooey it was from someone I don’t like so now I can’t stand it. All I can think about is buying that dude a toothbrush, but then he’d probably go on about how toothbrushes are actually bad for your health.

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3 points

At my last job I helped design VUIs, voice user interface. We called them “vooeys”.

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some people say G - U - I

It should be that way always, frankly, I don’t know why gooey even got started. Something “gooey” is the last thing I’d want associated with computer stuff

But I loathe all of the stupid attempts at shoehorning pronunciations of initialisms where it doesn’t belong

It’s not “Sequel” its fucking S-Q-L. They’re all initialisms. I will go through my entire IT career and die on this hill.

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No, GUI is a great acronym.

I had a colleague pronounce CLI as an acronym, though, and that stopped a meeting short.

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1 point

Huh, short i?

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It’s been called a gooey since at least the mid 80s. All you kids get off my lawn.

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Then it’s been wrong since the mid-80s and also becomes probable someone just did it as a joke and then it persisted

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TIL you can pronounce it “Gooey” - aww, people are wierd but creative!

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Funny having the opposite realization. Wonder how many times each of us have heard others pronounce GUI. You in the US?

Hard for me to estimate now that I think about it

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1 point

‘I’ before ‘E’ except after ‘W’

It’s easy to remember because it rhymes

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2 points

WYSIWYG = why see wig

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6 points

Wizzy-wig.

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I always said Wizz-e-wig

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