Yoo-fi? Yoo-ef-ee?

They shoulda made it easier to pronounce if they wanted people to call it that

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[–] 5 points 6 days ago (3 children)

What does lowercase have to do with anything?

The only thing that differentiates an acronym from an initialism is if it’s easily pronounceable as a word.

GUI is. GIF is. PDF is not. NASA is, NSA is not. SCUBA is. LASER is. FBI, ATM, URL, FYI are not.

That’s really it. UEFI doesn’t have a real direct pronunciation to it. So it’s just U-E-F-I.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    I've heard a couple people seriously pronounced URL as Earl. Everybody gave them a what the fuck look.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    Those are the same people that write "squeal" queries to get results out of a database.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 days ago

    Yeah, that's madness. First of all it's sequel.

    Second, fun fact, it's a backronym! SQL came after a cease and desist for calling it SEQUEL, such that it could be pronounced the same.

    So yes, you can totally say Sequel instead of S-Q-L, it's even historically accurate to do so!

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