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What is your least favourite acronym? (lemmy.nz)

submitted 11 months ago by thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 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 speech—you have to say the whole thing.

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

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[-] madcaesar@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

I fucking hate the stupid GIF / JIF debate. It's GIF!

[-] Nemo@midwest.social 3 points 11 months ago

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

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Nemo@midwest.social 14 points 11 months ago

ghost

aghast

ghetto

ghoul

gherkin

ghee

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

[-] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Spendrill@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago

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

[-] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

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."

[-] Spendrill@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

I'm a pasty, old, white man and even I've got a half-full can of ghee in the fridge. I know you don't have to keep it in the fridge but I'm short of cupboard space.

[-] nixcamic@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Allow me to clarify...

[-] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Shut up

[-] Nemo@midwest.social 4 points 11 months ago

It is in my house!

[-] monsterpiece42@reddthat.com 3 points 11 months ago

Cook more lol. It is common if you like making food!

[-] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

For non-Indian food, I've seen coconut and olive oil used, almost never ghee.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Nemo@midwest.social 2 points 11 months ago

Like OP said, very few words start with GH. My point is that the few words that do are very common and familiar.

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