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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    5 months ago

    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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      5 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.

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        5 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.