Yoo-fi? Yoo-ef-ee?
They shoulda made it easier to pronounce if they wanted people to call it that
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What does lowercase have to do with anything?
The only thing that differentiates an acronym from an initialism is if it’s easily pronounceable as a word.
GUI is. GIF is. PDF is not. NASA is, NSA is not. SCUBA is. LASER is. FBI, ATM, URL, FYI are not.
That’s really it. UEFI doesn’t have a real direct pronunciation to it. So it’s just U-E-F-I.
I've heard a couple people seriously pronounced URL as Earl. Everybody gave them a what the fuck look.
Those are the same people that write "squeal" queries to get results out of a database.
Yeah, that's madness. First of all it's sequel.
Second, fun fact, it's a backronym! SQL came after a cease and desist for calling it SEQUEL, such that it could be pronounced the same.
So yes, you can totally say Sequel instead of S-Q-L, it's even historically accurate to do so!