How do you pronounce our new type of bios UEFI.

U-Fee or
OOO-Fee? OOO like in OOOps or
F-Fee?

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merle - vote yes for freedom of speech

I'm not under the impression that all acronyms require a pronunciation, but I think U-fee or U-eff-ee could both be close.

Round these parts it is pronounced U E F I.

According to Wikipedia:

In computing, the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) (pronounced as an initialism U-E-F-I or like "unify" without the n)
Various pronunciations have existed for UEFI; according to the UK PC Pro Magazine, the following pronunciations are in use: "weffy" (PC Pro), "U-E-F-I" (Microsoft), "you-fee", and "you-ef-fee". The magazine also notes the lack of agreement on the pronunciation.

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What's wrong with just calling it what it is - Bios.

What's wrong with just calling it what it is - Bios.

The same reason we don't call Windows, DOS. Even though it is a Disk Operating System.

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Round these parts it is pronounced U E F I.

According to Wikipedia:

In computing, the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) (pronounced as an initialism U-E-F-I or like "unify" without the n)
Various pronunciations have existed for UEFI; according to the UK PC Pro Magazine, the following pronunciations are in use: "weffy" (PC Pro), "U-E-F-I" (Microsoft), "you-fee", and "you-ef-fee". The magazine also notes the lack of agreement on the pronunciation.

LOLOLOL I can't go wrong!

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merle - vote yes for freedom of speech

I've always just chosen to go with "you-eff-ee." I didn't hear anyone say it or read pronunciations for it, I just looked at the initialism and decided that was probably the best way to say it.

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I can see Abbott and Costello doing something like "who's on first" with this.

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I can see Abbott and Costello doing something like "who's on first" with this.

Don't worry there are plenty of other acronyms that people debate on how they are said. ATA, IEEE, PATA, SATA, & USB are just a few that I can recall at the moment.

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I can see Abbott and Costello doing something like "who's on first" with this.

Don't worry there are plenty of other acronyms that people debate on how they are said. ATA, IEEE, PATA, SATA, & USB are just a few that I can recall at the moment.

Interesting Hal, I didn't know that. Probably because UEFI seems strange to me for some reason - too many vowels. IEEE I thought of as just the letters unless you were a screamer by nature.

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merle - vote yes for freedom of speech

What's wrong with just calling it what it is - Bios.

The same reason we don't call Windows, DOS. Even though it is a Disk Operating System.

I still call both BIOS. When talking/writing to someone I simply won't spend my time on investigating wether somebody's motherboard has a BIOS or UEFI, since it doesn't matter in most cases. When I say BIOS, everybody knows what I mean anyway and those that don't would also not understand if I said UEFI, so nevermind. Actually I guess more people understand BIOS than UEFI.

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SCSI - becomes "Scussy".

I can see Abbott and Costello doing something like "who's on first" with this.

Don't worry there are plenty of other acronyms that people debate on how they are said. ATA, IEEE, PATA, SATA, & USB are just a few that I can recall at the moment.

I work for the IEEE. "eye triple e" :-)

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What's wrong with just calling it what it is - Bios.

The same reason we don't call Windows, DOS. Even though it is a Disk Operating System.

I still call both BIOS. When talking/writing to someone I simply won't spend my time on investigating wether somebody's motherboard has a BIOS or UEFI, since it doesn't matter in most cases. When I say BIOS, everybody knows what I mean anyway and those that don't would also not understand if I said UEFI, so nevermind. Actually I guess more people understand BIOS than UEFI.

Agreed. Really the only time designating UEFI is important is whether or not a systems support it for functionality reasons.

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I can see Abbott and Costello doing something like "who's on first" with this.

Don't worry there are plenty of other acronyms that people debate on how they are said. ATA, IEEE, PATA, SATA, & USB are just a few that I can recall at the moment.

I work for the IEEE. "eye triple e" :-)

That is how I generally hear it, but sometimes you have those weirdos that pronounce it like a word. They are often the ones that pronounce USB as a word as well.
Is there an IEEE doc that specifies how IEEE should be pronounced?

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Is there an IEEE doc that specifies how IEEE should be pronounced?

lol.. Futurama: "Bring me the forms I need to file for a requisition form!" That's the opening logic that gets you stuck in a loop.

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