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.

  • @otp
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    45 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
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      145 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.

      • @otp
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        15 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
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          25 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.