Yoo-fi? Yoo-ef-ee?
They shoulda made it easier to pronounce if they wanted people to call it that
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It’s like the One Piece character’s name, “Luffy” but without the “L”.
“uffy”.
/s, I just spell it out.
Fuck Intel.
“Intel Inside!” yeah I bet
You’re 100% correct.
But I’m gonna keep calling it BIOS anyway.
It does seem to serve the same purpose, an “OS” under the OS so 🤷
I don’t think the OS is the same in BIOS. It is “Basic Input Output System”
Ew-Ee-Ef-i
isn’t one of you named UEFI?
I say the letters U-E-F-I but often say BIOS interchangeably
Weffy
U
E
F
I
Bunified Ixtensible OEM-firmware interfaSe
it’s really quite simple. The B is silent because it is French.
You-fee
Yoo-e-ef-eye you heathen.
But in all seriousness, yeah…
You-ee-ef-eye
Just pronounce each letter. Am I doing it wrong?
That’s what I’ve always done, though someone mentioned their native language being the conflict, so maybe in other languages the E sound is better marked with an i for some, no idea.
Seriously this. What’s up with people pronouncing tech acronyms? It’s not “gooey”, it’s G-U-I. I’ll make an exception for file formats (llke .gif), because they’re written with lowercase letters.
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.
I’ve heard a couple people seriously pronounced URL as Earl. Everybody gave them a what the fuck look.
Those are the same people that write “squeal” queries to get results out of a database.
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!
I do say gooey though. Because it’s easy to pronounce and has an existing English equivalent homophone.
UEFI does not.
I also say Wizzy Wig.
And usually I say sequel instead of SQL. Though I think I switch back and forth with that one, probably based on context, but I can’t explain when or why now that I’m trying to think about it.
The prevent pronunciation of SQL as “sequel” is probably a result of it being frequently paired with an actual word, like MySQL or PostgreSQL. Or the fact that saying “M-S-S-Q-L” is a pronunciation obstacle course.
Ok thanks. MySQL, PostgreSQL and MSSQL are all cases when I actually say S - Q - L.
I say sequel when I use sqlplus, sqldeveloper, SQLServer.
This whole snafu is fubar.
Gooey is ubiquitous though.
I only every hear people say that, or “graphical user interface”, never “GUI”
and what about BIOS ?
Yo, effy
