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How do you pronounce GUI? (Page 2)
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I think that if the acronym is pronounceable, it should be said like a word. This makes sense because it usually reads like a word. In this case, GUI should be pronounced "gooey" because it can easily be read like that. Same with NASA, NASDAQ, RADAR, LASER, etc. But if you have an acronym that can't be pronounced like a word, it's easier to just say the individual letters, as in HTTP, HTML and VGA. Just my two cents.
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You mean you don't say Hittup, Hitmle and Veega?
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Originally posted by jamil5454:
I think that if the acronym is pronounceable, it should be said like a word. This makes sense because it usually reads like a word. In this case, GUI should be pronounced "gooey" because it can easily be read like that. Same with NASA, NASDAQ, RADAR, LASER, etc. But if you have an acronym that can't be pronounced like a word, it's easier to just say the individual letters, as in HTTP, HTML and VGA. Just my two cents.
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Wow, I've never even thought of this before... I never really actually say "GUI" but I always pronounce it in my head as "G-U-I" without second thought. Strange... I guess it's "gooey" or "Gwee" now. "G-U-I" just sounds so much better and more professional or something.
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Yeah, it's definitely "gooey." On a similar, slightly more off-topic note, I always enjoyed the pronunciation of SCSI: "scuzzy."
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The first time I heard the term "Scuzzy" was in an Office Max commercial from a cowboy named "Bill Gates" (No relation).
"Scuzzy's and Zips"
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Gooey.
As well as wizzy-wig.
wysiwyg.
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wow. All I can say is wow. I say "gee-you-eye" or just "interface", and for severael reasons.
-it sounds more professional. this is the same reason why I don't use "leet"
-Wile it is a valid point that GUI can, and therefore should, be pronounced as a word (gooey) just as you have NASA and NASDAQ and GIF etc, gooey is its own word. I've never seen something that was quite nazdack, although I have seen some things that are quite gooey.
-related to above, it opens up for lame double-meaning jokes (it was a gooey GUI, etc)
as for WYSIWYG... wizzywig sounds very very odd. I think its easier and more natural to say Whatca see is whatcha get. In common dialogue, its very easy to say "watcha" instead of "what you"
so the tradeoff really comes down to the effort of saying one more syllable versus sounding unprofessional and/or immature. To each his own, I suppose.
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You like to take the long way to work too, don't you?
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no-theres no reason for that, but I just gave some good ones for this matter. But seeing as how you seem to be so very passionate about this being "gooey," I'll just leave it be.
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No, I was serious. Despite liking to say things easier, you seem to like spelling them out.
Whatever, man. Don't make me the bad guy. Nyah nyah. I'm not playing your little game.
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G U I
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apple pronounce it G U I
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Yet SQL is 'sequel' and SMPTE is 'simptee'?
Whatever.
It's 'gooey' for me (and zjhay-oo-ee for Ave)
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