How do you pronounce GUI

[Retro1234]

as the title how do you pronounce GUI and has that ever changed
I use to say G.U.I
but now days most will say GOO-ee

How's about you?

[Foebane]

Originally Posted by Retro1234

as the title how do you pronounce GUI and has that ever changed
I use to say G.U.I
but now days most will say GOO-ee

How's about you?

Let's see: three letters of the Latin alphabet, so I pronounce them that way.

[chadderack]

I pronounce it "Apu DeBonMarchais," but then again, I'm weird

[Daedalus]

Originally Posted by Foebane

Let's see: three letters of the Latin alphabet, so I pronounce them that way.

What way? The word "the" is three letters of the Latin alphabet, and is pronounced "the". The acronym "RAM" is three letters of the Latin alphabet, and is pronounced "ram". And the initialism "CPU" is three letters of the Latin alphabet, and is pronounced as discrete letters.

Anyway, to answer the OP, personally I switch between the two, depending on what others in the conversation have used before me. If I'm first to use the term, I'll make a judgement call, but more often than not I'd probably treat it as an initialism, i.e. separate letters. Same for MUI.

[Matt_H]

I'm a letters guy - gee you eye. emm you eye. ay aitch eye.

[stainy]

Gooey

[rare_j]

I omit the G and just say the letters U-I. That way I don't have to say gooey.

[Rotareneg]

GUI: Gee-Yeuy
GIF: Guy-ff
JPG: Juh-Peeg
MPG: Muh-Peg
FTP: Fuht-pee

I might be joking though.

[Predseda]

Originally Posted by Retro1234

as the title how do you pronounce GUI and has that ever changed
I use to say G.U.I
but now days most will say GOO-ee

How's about you?

The same. Worse situation is with CLI, I can not even write how do I pronounce it

[Retro1234]

Originally Posted by rare_j

I omit the G and just say the letters U-I. That way I don't have to say gooey.

I think this is what I will do now, it seems to keep both camps happy.

But after a bit of googling I have found quite alot of I'm in the industry and It's always been gooey.

even so it still seems 50/50 but probably people in the industry using GOO-ee .

To me GOO-ee is Bill Gates trying to be cool at a stackoverflow convention.

but it's strange how most of us say things in the same way for example think about how you say the following
Gif, Iff, WYSIWYG
now I bet 99.9% of us pronounce these the same.

[Predseda]

And also moo-ee

[rare_j]

Here's another one

• Usb memory stick
• Usb flash drive
• Usb flash memory
• Thumb drive
• Pen drive

Which is it?

[Seiya]

i say: gui (but italian phonetics, so "gu-i")

[Gorf]

It is pronounced "mui"!

[Seiya]

Originally Posted by Rotareneg

GUI: Gee-Yeuy
GIF: Guy-ff
JPG: Juh-Peeg
MPG: Muh-Peg
FTP: Fuht-pee

I might be joking though.

gui i use italian phonetics so "gu-i"
g-ff
jei-peg
em-peg
eff-tee-pee

mui idem, italian phonetics so "mu-i"

[Seiya]

Originally Posted by rare_j

Here's another one

• Usb memory stick
• Usb flash drive
• Usb flash memory
• Thumb drive
• Pen drive

Which is it?

Italian pronounciation of English is:

U-esse-bi memori stic
u-esse-bi flesc draiv
u-esse-bi flesc memori
tumb draiv
pen draiv

my english pronounciation

iu-es-b memori stik
iu-es-b flesh draive
iu-es-b flesh memori
tumb draive
pen draive

[malko]

It depends to whom I am speaking with. With 'noobs' I always pronounce it "Graphical User Interface" (otherwise you got head acknowledgement with big eyes - and you know they are lost) and with the pro I don't even have to pronounce it as they know what I am talking about

joking of course.... but who knows

[stevelord]

No love for J'hui?

[Nobby_UK]

G-u-i
m-u-i

[meynaf]

In French it's just gé-u-i [Ze-y-i]. Never heard anything else. Wouldn't try to spell it in english.