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What is your least favourite acronym? (lemmy.nz)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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Mine is OOO for Out Of Office. I always misread it in my head like a ghost and it takes me a few seconds to process. It also doesn't translate to speechβ€”you have to say the whole thing.

Interested to see if others have similar acronyms they beef with.

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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

You mean the GIF / GHIF debate. I agree, it flies in the face of common sense to say it the wrong way.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What the heck is ghif? GH often makes no sound, or an f sound, but is almost never at the start of a word.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    ghost

    aghast

    ghetto

    ghoul

    gherkin

    ghee

    "Almost never" but the words where it is are common enough everyone knows how to say it.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I like how you say "ghee" is a common word

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    London, UK. Ghee is an everyday word. So is Bombay Aloo.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Dang. As an Indian-American, I rarely hear non-Indians say "ghee," and the few times I do on YouTube videos, it's always "ghee butter."

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Ghee actually uses a different sound than "ghost", but we don't have that sound in English. It's like saying that "ts" makes an "s" sound because of the word tsunami.

    So is that all of the gh words? Because that's a very small list, lol

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