How do you pronounce Wi-Fi?

[waffleironhead]

Who the fuck pronounces it wee-fee?

spanish speakers?

 

[BoomerD]

Why-Fy.

 

[Locut0s]

DVD

Lol, not quite, but close.

 

[ShadowOfMyself]

I always thought that there was just one way. Then I was corrected.

...

So you didnt spell it as Why-Fie?

 

[HAL9000]

Whey Fey...

 

[Jumpem]

Why-Fie

There is no other way to pronounce it.

This.

 

[Ichinisan]

Why-Fie

There is no other way to pronounce it.

This.

 

[Ichinisan]

I say 802.11g

But WiFi also encompasses a/b/g/n

 

[Fingolfin269]

*edit* lol nevermind, never ask someone with shitty hearing about pronunciation.

 

[zerogear]

I always thought that there was just one way. Then I was corrected.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?wifi001v.wav=Wi-Fi

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

wHy fie? really? You pronounce an h in there? I always thought it was pronounced something like 'Y fie'.

Why fie sounds like you're asking a question. I'm using why fie?

Erm...you do know that the H in why is silent, right?

 

[Mike Gayner]

9 people on ATOT are illiterate.

 

[KaOTiK]

bacon

 

[Ichinisan]

bacon

I sometimes pronounce it that way.

"Anyone know where I can access some bacon around here?"

 

[ioni]

why fie

It seems like everyone I know over 30 pronounces it whiff eeee. And I'm always like, "wat?"

 

[Ichinisan]

why fie

It seems like everyone I know over 30 pronounces it whiff eeee. And I'm always like, "wat?"

That would irritate me even more than "why kih pee dee uh"

wicky wickee WICKI WIKKI! Dayum. (first 'I' is a short vowel)

 

[esquared]

Remember hifi?
[hahy-fahy]
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hifi

Same for wifi
[wahy-fahy]
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/wifi

 

[Kevin1211]

in spain, they pronounce it as "wee-fee"

 

[Fingolfin269]

Erm...you do know that the H in why is silent, right?

Jesus, this must be one of those times when being half deaf sucks for me. Ha I had no idea. Funny thing is I just went to dictionary.com and am listening to it and still hear an h. Oh how my ears blow.

Next thing you know you're going to tell me that the p in pneumonia is silent!

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Why do I feel like I stumbled into a HAL9000 thread?

 

[CZroe]

There is only one way to pronounce Hi-Fi. Because Wi-Fi is a play on that, there is only one way to pronounce it. That would be the first syllable of these two words:
Wireless
Fidelity

And don't go around calling it Wireless Fidelity either. That's no more descriptive.

Now, OP, show me one single CE ad with someone pronouncing it any way but the Hi-Fi-derived way if you don't want us to think you're an idiot.

Now, back in the '90s, I called a router both root-er and rou-ter (50%/50%) because the base word and verb (what it does), route, can be pronounced either way and they weren't mainstream enough for there to be things like TV commercials to draw from. All of my tech knowledge came from print and a primarily textual dial-up Internet. By the time I encountered IT professionals and learned that it was nearly universally called "rou-ter" in the US, I immediately adopted the accepted way to pronounce it. If you've been saying it wrong, you should too.

I happen to know that Ichinisan jokingly calls it "whiffy" from time to time.

 

[Murloc]

it's a marketing name but it doesn't come from Wireless Fidelity. It doesn't make sense indeed.
I say uai fai (every vowel is one sound). I guess it would be correct to pronounce it like Hi-Fi since it's copied from that.

 

[dank69]

Jesus, this must be one of those times when being half deaf sucks for me. Ha I had no idea. Funny thing is I just went to dictionary.com and am listening to it and still hear an h. Oh how my ears blow.

Next thing you know you're going to tell me that the p in pneumonia is silent!

coo hwip

 

[MotionMan]

Just like Syfy.



MotionMan

 

[mmntech]

Wi-Fi is short for Wireless Fidelity, so it's pronounced the same way as Hi-Fi.