Poll: How do YOU pronounce FAQ?
- Thread starter WOPR
- Start date
Recommended Videos
I do both, with no real consistency. Sometimes I just say Fack without really noticing, other times I call things F-A-Qs. There's no real defining features of times I use one or the other either.
That's happened in English with "snafu" and (to a lesser extent) "fubar", even though neither one is even remotely similar to a related English word. (Interestingly my spellchecker even accepts "snafu" in lower case.)Cowabungaa said:
Though, if I had to guess, their shift to legitimate words has more to do with social feelings on profanity.
i like to pronounce it like this "QUAFF". questions asked frequently makes more sense plus quaff sounds cooler than fack
Yep damn all those people who pronounce L.A.S.E.R, R.A.D.A.R and S.O.N.A.R phonetically. All those people are annoying. This is a totally new thing that's lame.WOPR said:
This doesn't apply only to the poster I'm quoting, but everyone who's used the word acronym erroneously everywhere. Please learn the difference between acronym and abbreviation. An acronym is deliberately shortened in a way that makes it a pronouncable word. An abbreviation is just a shortened version of a series of words with no concern for whether it can be spoken out loud in it's abbreviated form.WOPR said:
Thanks for your time.
Yeah, that's what's cracking me up as well.C95J said:I like the way it also doubles up as a secret curse word you could be saying to me.Starke said:Fah Cue.C95J said:
But, in all seriousness, I'm remembering that butcherization.
On topic: I usually sound out each letter. Eff Ay Cue.
Usually 'fack', but then I have to repeat 'F.A.Q.' because people don't understand what I'm talking about. I like it that way.
That reminds me of when I use to watch Lost before it went stupid, they had that Muslim dude getting interrogated in Australia and guy playing the ASIO (Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, think MI-5/6)Agent actually said it as "A-S-I-O", a massive "WTF?" moment followed, I've never heard it said that way by anyone ever, it took me a while to work out what they were talking about.incrediblegeek said:
It's normally pronounced A C Oh (I can't work how to right it)
Frequently asked questions. when I try to say it as the short, I usually pronounce it: fack u (no seriously, I do, no pun intended) thats why I usually say is as frequently etc.
Eff Ae Kyoo
Except I'm nearly always using FAQ in the sentence "I checked/you need to check the FAQ" and so 'The FAQ' turns into
Deeyeffaykyoo
Except I'm nearly always using FAQ in the sentence "I checked/you need to check the FAQ" and so 'The FAQ' turns into
Deeyeffaykyoo
I read it as Fack but pronounce it eff ay que.
The situation hasn't presented itself where I've had to say it though.
The situation hasn't presented itself where I've had to say it though.
