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merle van osdol Send message Joined: 23 Oct 02 Posts: 809 Credit: 1,980,117 RAC: 0 |
How do you pronounce our new type of bios UEFI. U-Fee or OOO-Fee? OOO like in OOOps or F-Fee? merle - vote yes for freedom of speech |
OzzFan Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28 |
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. |
HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
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) SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
What's wrong with just calling it what it is - Bios. |
HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
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. SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
merle van osdol Send message Joined: 23 Oct 02 Posts: 809 Credit: 1,980,117 RAC: 0 |
Round these parts it is pronounced U E F I. LOLOLOL I can't go wrong! merle - vote yes for freedom of speech |
Cosmic_Ocean Send message Joined: 23 Dec 00 Posts: 3027 Credit: 13,516,867 RAC: 13 |
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. Linux laptop: record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up) |
merle van osdol Send message Joined: 23 Oct 02 Posts: 809 Credit: 1,980,117 RAC: 0 |
I can see Abbott and Costello doing something like "who's on first" with this. merle - vote yes for freedom of speech |
HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
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. SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
merle van osdol Send message Joined: 23 Oct 02 Posts: 809 Credit: 1,980,117 RAC: 0 |
I can see Abbott and Costello doing something like "who's on first" with this. 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. merle - vote yes for freedom of speech |
Link Send message Joined: 18 Sep 03 Posts: 834 Credit: 1,807,369 RAC: 0 |
What's wrong with just calling it what it is - Bios. 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. |
musicplayer Send message Joined: 17 May 10 Posts: 2430 Credit: 926,046 RAC: 0 |
SCSI - becomes "Scussy". |
Fawkesguy Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 108 Credit: 188,578,766 RAC: 0 |
I can see Abbott and Costello doing something like "who's on first" with this. I work for the IEEE. "eye triple e" :-) |
HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
What's wrong with just calling it what it is - Bios. Agreed. Really the only time designating UEFI is important is whether or not a systems support it for functionality reasons. SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
I can see Abbott and Costello doing something like "who's on first" with this. 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? SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
Cosmic_Ocean Send message Joined: 23 Dec 00 Posts: 3027 Credit: 13,516,867 RAC: 13 |
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. Linux laptop: record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up) |
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