GUI pronounced as 'gooey'
It's a jee you eye, not a gooey. I even tend to drop the jee, and use the context of sentence to let people know which specific 'you' 'eye' I'm talking about. They're UI's that happen to be graphical. It's a U I.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU

I rest my case.

edit: No i don't rest my case. I used the phrase 'the new upgrade will give us greater control over the UIs and therefore enable us to finally meet DDA compliance on the application' in a conference call today. Somebody in an IT role earning 3 times my salary said 'sorry, what does UI mean?' and on clarification said 'oh you mean a gooey!' No I didn't. I meant what I said. The enhancements improve the capability of screen readers for the blind to put the 'gooey' into spoken text.

Now I rest my case!
( more balanced than jeremy beadle It wasn't me..., Tue 13 Apr 2010, 23:33, 4 replies)

UI
includes the mouse and keyboard, and every other means by which humans and computers interact. The two terms are not interchangeagle. Gooey it is.

Unless, of course, you code Jay Aye Vee Aye, install and extra gig of Are Aye Emm, etc, etc
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 0:36, closed)

Like I said
I tend to use the context of the sentence to state which particular UI I'm talking about. I don't mind the term GUI, I just hate people saying it as gooey instead of gee ewe eye.
( more balanced than jeremy beadle It wasn't me..., Wed 14 Apr 2010, 8:21, closed)

What you on about, fool?
If an acronym is pronouncable as a word, that's what people use:

GUI = "gooey"
DOS = "doss"
RAM = "ram"
WYSIWYG = "whizzy wig"

It's only with acronyms like DVD and USB that it's easier to use the capital letters instead.
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 11:16, closed)

I know. I understand.
I just hate the word gooey in this context. It just sounds wrong. I thought this was a question about phrases that get on your nerves? This is one of them for me!! It sounds like some horrible Americanisation! On the whole, abbreviations become words if they sound good. Gooey, IN MY PERSONAL OPINION, doesn't sound good and makes me cringe when I hear it!!!! It is also a bit of a dodgy phrase as the GUI is not just graphical, where I work, it must be built so that screen readers for the blind can read the text, therefore GUI is only half of it, it's a UI, part of whioh is graphical!!!
( more balanced than jeremy beadle It wasn't me..., Wed 14 Apr 2010, 12:30, closed)