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How do you pronounce Wi-Fi?

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How do you pronounce Wi-Fi?

  • Why fie (rhymes with Sky)

  • Wee Fee (rhymes with Sea)

  • Wih Fih (Short I as in wiffle)

  • Other (See text)

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

It seems like everyone I know over 30 pronounces it whiff eeee. And I'm always like, "wat?"
 
Mr. Pedantic said:
Erm...you do know that the H in why is silent, right?
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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!
 
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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.
 
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.
 
Fingolfin269 said:
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!
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coo hwip
 
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