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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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      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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          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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          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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          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 because jay-peg actually makes sense and fits well, just like NASA makes sense and fits well. You can say NASA and JPEG without having to introduce additional letters to make it work. Unlike “Gooey”, “Sequel”, or “Scuzzy” which all require the addon of more letters to actually work

              You can just see JPEG and intuitively go “Oh Jay-PEG” you can’t say the same for SCSI

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                  Where? you can pronounce “J” 2 ways. “Je” and “Jay”

                  “PEG” stands on its own, and it’s also a word, “peg”

                  So when you pronounce Jay-PEG you’re just sounding out the “J” and pronouncing the word “PEG”. No letters have been added to make it pronounceable

                  In contrast to “Sequel”/SQL where you need to add a vowel “e” and a consonant “u” to get “sequel”

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              I just say S-C-S-I instead of “Scuzzy” or whatever it is

              Everyone says H-T-T-P, why don’t they say “Hettep”‽

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                  To get Scuzzy you have to fundamentally modify SCSI and break a few grammatical rules

                  In English, “S” before a consonant typically retains its standard /s/ sound (as in “stop” or “snow”). Pronouncing “SCSI” as “Scuzzy” violates this by softening the second “S” into a /z/ sound before the consonant “Z,” which doesn’t follow the rule where “S” remains /s/ unless a voicing context (such as between two vowels) alters it.

                  English has rules governing when consonants are “soft” (like “S” becoming /z/) or “hard” (like “C” becoming /k/). In “SCSI,” these letters maintain their distinct pronunciations, but when forced into “Scuzzy,” the “C” becomes part of a hard /sk/ sound, and the second “S” is softened into /z/. These changes are not guided by typical English consonant-hardening rules, especially since “SCSI” does not include the contextual elements that normally trigger these shifts (e.g., vowel placement following “C” in certain cases).

                  You also have to add whole new vowels like “u” and “y”

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                    The C is hard because the second word is “Computer.” The O in “Computer” becomes a “u” sound because “scossy” sounds odd.

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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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          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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              Nah, and I can prove it mathgramatically

              In order to make GUI pronounceable you have to add in vowels and blend consonants and fundamentally changes it’s pronociation. GUI is meant to have each letter on its own, and on their own those letters cannot make the “oo” and “ee” sounds

              On their own they make the following pronunciations:

              G: Pronounced as /dʒi/

              U: Pronounced as /ju/ (like “you”)

              I: Pronounced as /aɪ/ (like “eye”), with a long “i” sound

              In contrast, true acronyms like “NASA” form a pronounceable word naturally without requiring any modifications, making “Gooey” a grammatically improper pronunciation of “GUI.”

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                You’re right everyone pronounces taxi as tax eye. You’re actually trying to dictate pronunciation in English?

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                  “Taxi” comes from the French word “taximètre” and its shortened form “taxi,” which itself comes from the Latin “taxa,” meaning charge or rate. In this case, the “i” at the end of “taxi” is pronounced as a short vowel sound (/ɪ/), like the “i” in “sit,” rather than a long “eye” sound (/aɪ/). English has phonetic rules where an “i” at the end of a word is pronounced as a short vowel when preceded by a consonant, especially when the word has a foreign language origin. This contrasts with words like “alibi” or “butterfly,” where the “i” is part of a longer syllable or a diphthong. Therefore, “Taxi” is pronounced “tak-see” following these conventions.

                  You’re actually trying to dictate pronunciation in English?

                  Wym? This is an English community and the thread is about English initialisms, acronyms and words. Why would I not reference English grammatical rules?