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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Eh-boo? Or Eh-Aye-Bee-Yoo?

88 replies

StillCoughingandLaughing · 11/08/2019 11:57

How do you pronounce ‘AIBU?’ in your head?

OP posts:
ElfridaEtAl · 11/08/2019 11:58

Eh-boo

WaitedForGodot · 11/08/2019 11:58

Aye-Boo

Shantotto · 11/08/2019 11:58

I-boo!

ethelfleda · 11/08/2019 11:58

I don’t!

LilouBlue · 11/08/2019 11:58

Eye-boo

Cheeserton · 11/08/2019 11:59

I pronounce it Am I Being Unreasonable. Confused

LoseLooseLucy · 11/08/2019 11:59

Eye-Boo

hungryhippie · 11/08/2019 12:00

I don't either. I say Am I Being Unreasonable, if I am talking about the board.

Laiste · 11/08/2019 12:00

Am I Bee.

For Relationships it's always R Ships.

StillCoughingandLaughing · 11/08/2019 12:01

I pronounce it Am I Being Unreasonable. Confused

Why are you confused about it?

OP posts:
Yeahnahmum · 11/08/2019 12:01

@Cheeserton really??? Everytime??😊

i just hear eye-boo in my head when i see AIBU😂

Cheeserton · 11/08/2019 12:12

Why are you confused about it?
Because I can't relate personally to wanting to pronounce it as anything other than what it stands for, given it's not an actual word and obviously so. Clearly others will feel differently...

pictish · 11/08/2019 12:12

Aye-boo

echt · 11/08/2019 12:13

Am I Being Unreasonable.

pictish · 11/08/2019 12:14

Also ya-boo or yan-boo...by way of response.

Loyaultemelie · 11/08/2019 12:27

Aye boo

PancakeAndKeith · 11/08/2019 12:28

If I read it in a sentence then I say ‘am I being unreasonable’.

KatherineJaneway · 11/08/2019 12:35

I pronounce it Am I Being Unreasonable.

Me too!

Greensleeves · 11/08/2019 12:37

Eye Boo

Yar Boo

Yan Boo

Ninkaninus · 11/08/2019 12:37

Eye bu. But only for the title of the forum - in text or conversation on an thread I read it as the actual words.

Sometimes I wish I’d got in the habit of pronouncing the ai as in faith, as I think that sounds better.

PenelopeFlintstone · 11/08/2019 12:39

Ay eye bee you - But only for the title of the forum - in text or conversation on an thread I read it as the actual words.

lazylinguist · 11/08/2019 12:41

Eye boo

elQuintoConyo · 11/08/2019 12:50

I-boo
Ya-boo
Yan-boo

ifyswim = iffy-swim
iirc = erk
irl = erl
wwyd = wayward!

KUGA · 11/08/2019 13:08

I don`t pronounce it.

FiveLittlePigs · 11/08/2019 13:10

Ay-boo if I do say it (not often) Grin

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