How to pronounce FYI?
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@TheOnceler said in How to pronounce FYI?:
Let's say I recently suffered a traumatic brain injury and decided I needed to pronounce FYI in some way other than the letters.
Why in the hell would I ever pronounce it 'fwee' or 'fwy' instead of 'fyee' or 'fy-eye'? It's not FWI.
Anyway, someone pronouncing FYI as anything other than eff-wy-eye' is almost certainly someone's way of signaling that they've been kidnapped and we're really letting them down right now.
So if I had to make an argument --
...we have Y in our alphabet to stand in for the greek letter upsilon, which historically had a sound like the modern french u or german ü, sort of a rounded 'long e' sound in english. Putting this before the actual long e sound normally represented by the I there forces it into a semivowel/glide function, thus making 'fwee' the most accurate pronunciation for the historical sounds of the letters in the Latin alphabet.
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And I'm FYI...
FYI fallin'
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"Fye-eye."
Confuse people into thinking you really meant "wifi" or something.
"Fye-eye. Like, I'm telling you something, a thing I'm telling you. Fye-eye."
Bonus points if you huff like it's obvious and they're just being stubborn.
