Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: FAQ pronunciation

jms@infinet.com (John M. Salimbene) wrote in <2u2uth$q0d@rigel.infinet.com>:

| I know that FAQ stands for Frequently Asked Questions but what I don't know
| (and haven't seen in any FAQ) is how it is pronounced orally:  Fack or
| Eff-Aie-Que?  Since many (most?) of the acronyms on the net seem to be
| pronounced rather than spelled out, my bet is that its Fack.  Any definitive
| answer to this?

The commonly accepted pronunciation is a compromise: two letters are sounded as if they were forming a syllable and the third letter is named: it is 'fuh queue'.

That's not only how it's tongued when it stands for "frequently asked ques- tion." When it means a compilation of frequently asked questions and their answers, that's 'fuh queue' too.

6-Nov-2k3: Grey is on holiday.