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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

to ask how you pronounce 'aibu' in your head?

180 replies

Wordsaremything · 04/04/2016 22:23

Well?
Grin

OP posts:
EDisFunny · 04/04/2016 22:57

Eye-boo

I'm not Scottish but the Aye eye boo read as eye eye boo to me too!

DramaAlpaca · 04/04/2016 22:58

I've just realised that it's a bit strange that I say the individual capital letters in AIBU, but for the responses I say Yahboo and Yanboo Confused

Lockheart · 04/04/2016 22:58

Another ai- / eye-boo here! Although I know it means am I being unreasonable and sometimes I read it in my head normally. Only sometimes mind!

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 04/04/2016 22:59

Eye boo

BadgersNadgers · 04/04/2016 23:00

Ay (rhymes with hay) Boo. Pretty sure that will be the name of Jamie Oliver's next child.

SawdustInMyHair · 04/04/2016 23:00

Eye - bee - you

I seem to be a chimaera! I read the AI together as one sound, but the B and U separate.

Trills · 04/04/2016 23:00

Aye-Boo obviously.

But it really annoys me when people use it wrongly.

"Am I AIBU?"

"Not sure if I am AIBU"

"She is definitely AIBU!"

Do they not know what it stands for?

Also:

"AIBU that my sister is being mean?"

No, that sentence makes no sense, you need a "to think" in it.

"AIBU this restaurant meal?"

You probably need an "about" to make that one work.

Or finally:

"AIBU to ask you how to make cauliflower cheese?"

No, you're not unreasonable to ask, but maybe if you want to actually ASK (and not just enquire as to the reasonableness of asking) you should go to the Recipes topic.

WorraLiberty · 04/04/2016 23:00

Fucking hell.

This thread reads like an episode of the Tellytubbies.

CremeEggThief · 04/04/2016 23:02

Ayboo(as in day). Anything else is wrong!

imwithspud · 04/04/2016 23:03

Aye Eye Bee You

DramaAlpaca · 04/04/2016 23:04

Eh-oh! Grin

kimmy121 · 04/04/2016 23:04

Ai boo ( like Hay boo, no H)

FeralBeryl · 04/04/2016 23:05

Aye Eee Bee you

HunterHearstHelmsley · 04/04/2016 23:06

Ay eye bee yoo

WorraLiberty · 04/04/2016 23:06

Tubby custard Grin

doesthatmakesense · 04/04/2016 23:08

Ay (rhymes with day) boo; but only worked this out because yanbu comes out as... Yan-boo.

DramaAlpaca · 04/04/2016 23:08

Noo Noo Smile

KenAdams · 04/04/2016 23:09

Ay boo

RudeElf · 04/04/2016 23:09

Eye boo

WoTmania · 04/04/2016 23:12

Am I Being Unreasonable.

Which is odd because most things I see as the word the acronym makes

EllenJanethickerknickers · 04/04/2016 23:12

Am I being unreasonable?

choccyp1g · 04/04/2016 23:16

I pronounce it with an M in. Like Malibu, but Amibu.

Micromanageit · 04/04/2016 23:20

Sometimes I think 'Am I being unreasonable'

Sometimes I think 'Am I B U'

But I always read yanbu and yabu as yanboo and yahboo

Sandbrook · 04/04/2016 23:21

Ay aye bee you

SanityClause · 04/04/2016 23:24

Ay (to rhyme with hay) boo.

And yanboo and yabboo