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

[StillCoughingandLaughing]

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

How do you not pronounce it? Surely you say something in your head when you read it, or is it just a blank space of nothingness?

Eye boo

Ah - Eye - bu.

Ah eee bu

Am I Being Unreasonable.

Although I don’t think I actually say it out loud that often!

I'm with those who don't! I mean, I read thread titles. I think I just get to the acronym and take that I understand what it means.

I'd never noticed I did that, and am now a bit weirded out! 😂

I don't pronounce. My head says the full phrase when I see the acronym.

I pronounce it Am I Being Unreasonable.

Me too!

Full thing for me too though for DD, DH etc I don't.

A - boo
(A like in hay)

Yan- boo
Ya- boo

😂

Ay-boo

I just read it as Am I Being Unreasonable.

Ai as in "rain" boo

I say the whole thing for every acronym so I can comprehend it

Another one who reads it as 'am I being unreasonable'.

But that's only when it's used in a sentence otherwise I don't tend to pronounce it at all. I just read it without thinking of the sound it would make.

I'm all confused now. I keep looking at it but tbh I'm still not getting any sense of a sound in my head.

I don't pronounce it,just like I don't with WTF.

Eye-bu

@pigsDOfly it just wouldn’t make sense if I read a sentence with a load of sounds

For instance, ‘wtf is this thing?’ I read as full, otherwise it the what the fuck carries no bearing at all and loses its meaning. ‘Wut-fu is this thing?’ would be ridiculous

‘What the fuck’ is quicker and easier to say in full than it’s acronym, so I’d never take the time to say the individual letter names for w t f. Not the case with AIBU, so I don’t know why I use the acronym for the title only and otherwise say each word...obviously my laziness is variable.

@VenusTiger

Well yes, that's my point. In a sentence I say it in full in my head but when I see it at the top of the page I don't pronounce it as anything.

I would assume most people would pronounce it in full in a sentence.

I think I'm faulty. My brain goes 'ah-mah-bah-ru'.

@pigsDOfly, yes. So we’re NBU then

Ninkaninus I suppose it depends on whether you say 'double-yoo tee eff' or 'wuhtuhfuh'.

I pronounce it Am I Being Unreasonable.

Me too!