Inspired by this thread, I was wondering how most people pronounce “FAQ”. I say “Fack” but my husband says “F-A-Q”… so what do you say? Maybe we can figure out which is more common.
I say out the letters. But I could get behind a movement to pronounce the first 2 letters together, then Q.
I say Fack, but I’ve never seen it spelled ‘fack’. In fact, I’ve never seen it spelled at all, I guess in my head it was always spelled fact, but that doesn’t make sense now that I write it out.
Either way, I pronounce it fack.
Fa-Q?
Hey, Fa-Q2 Buddy.
The movement has started!
I’ve never had to pronounce it, and likely never will.
In my head I pronounce it fack, but I’ve never had to say it.
I say the letters. I have never heard it pronounced like ‘fack’ or anything similar, and I’d have no idea what someone meant if they said it that way.
In my head I say “fack” but if I have to say it out loud, I pronounce the letters. I never really noticed this before I had to think about it for this thread.
Lol I say face too!
My mind’s eye always reads it as “fax”.
So, I’m weird… that won’t make the six o’clock news.
Either/Or. It isn’t set in stone for me.
This.
I use both interchangeably. Honestly, I have no idea which one I use more often.
In my head I hear “fack”, but whenever I have to say it to someone I just say “Frequently Asked Questions”. “Fack” sounds too much like “fag” and “fact” and “eff-ay-queue” sounds too much like “fuck you”.
The way I see it, FAQs contain facts, so I pronounce the two bolded words similarly.
Not weird at all, since I always assumed it was a cute synonym for “facts” (as in, facts about game X or movie Y), I’ve always said it your way.
I demand a re-polling!
Working in software support, we sometimes direct people to the FAQs. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone in my department refer to them as “fack” and wouldn’t have known what it meant before this thread.
Voted something else.
I always hesitate for a fraction of a second while wondering how to pronounce it, then say “frequently asked question.” Always.
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This is just about acronyms, right? Point being to condense down information to a shorter form? Frequently Asked Questions is “fax” (or “facks”). F-A-Qs is three syllables; facks is one. Shorter, and conveys the same information. Does anyone say R-A-D-A-R (five syllables), or O-P-E-C (four) instead of the two syllable “radar” or “OPEC”?
Here is a list of military acronyms (long…).
Many likely have to be pronounced as letters because they don’t form a sensible word- e.g.-(AABNCP), but an acronym like AWACS - two syllables - works fine as a word. I’d think the shorter words, particularly the one syllable ones, would prevail over letters. Perhaps one of our current or former military Dopers can shed some light here.
I recognize it as a symbol or object representing Frequently Asked Questions. It has no sound, it just is.
It’s never worked out that I’ve said it aloud.