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.
No. That’s how we end up with stupid sounding crap like (ugh) “Gooey” for GUI. Just say G-U-I or A-I.
I’ve always said the letters and was surprised when I heard someone say ‘gooey’ when I entered college.
Still don’t like it.
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.
No, GUI is a great acronym.
I had a colleague pronounce CLI as an acronym, though, and that stopped a meeting short.
It’s been called a gooey since at least the mid 80s. All you kids get off my lawn.
Then it’s been wrong since the mid-80s and also becomes probable someone just did it as a joke and then it persisted
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