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GUI Or Gooey?

GUI or Gooey?

  • Gooey

  • GUI

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lxskllr

lxskllr

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What do you all say when you refer to a user interface for a computer? I always spell it out as GUI. Gooey sounds stupid to me, and even if it's accepted, I refuse to say it like that.
 
I was curious, because it doesn't come up a lot in my circle. I see it in print, but seldom hear it. Recently someone described a "gooey", and it took me a second to interpret what he was saying. I always say it as GUI in my head, and also in the rare circumstances when I speak it.
 
I always read it in my head as "gooey", but I'm not in IT so I don't think I've ever actually said it out loud.
 
I meant to be G.U.I. just like you would say NCAA...or fbi...never i my life have i heard someone call it gooey.
 
I always say G-U-I. Some acronyms work when pronounced, like NATO. Others not so much, like GUI. I can see the "Goo" but how the hell do you get the phonetic E sound from an I? On top of that, it sounds dumb.
 
IcePickFreak said:
I always say G-U-I. Some acronyms work when pronounced, like NATO. Others not so much, like GUI. I can see the "Goo" but how the hell do you get the phonetic E sound from an I? On top of that, it sounds dumb.
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"I" can sound like "E", especially in languages other than English, but the point still remains that it sounds dumb :^D
 
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