f-EYE or f-EE?

[mimzy]

this is a totally unimportant question, but i had to ask.

yesterday my FI was looking over my shoulder when i was on pricescope and he was like "argh, stop calling me fee! i hate that!" i was astonished that he read it that way, as i always said "f-eye" in my head.

i know FI is short for fiance, so i guess the shortened version would read as ''fee'', but i think the ever so frequently used ''hi'' has influenced my internal pronunciation.

how do you say it in your head?!?! i need to know!

 

[CrownJewel]

there is no "NEITHER" option! I see FI, and I say "fiance" in my head. I''ve never said "f-eye" or "f-ee". Maybe I''m weird!

 

[DMBsGirl]

one vote for fee!

 

[ladyciel]

I''m with CJ on this one - I always think fiance, or, sometimes I just think the individual letters - "F I".

 

[Future Mrs Polka Dot]

Oh, can I change my vote! (haha!) I actually thought "F-eye" meant saying the indiidual letters, F then I. That is what I do. Or "eff-eye."

Haha, this is so confusing

 

[musey]

Date: 1/16/2008 9:36:02 PM
Author: CrownJewel
there is no 'NEITHER' option! I see FI, and I say 'fiance' in my head. I've never said 'f-eye' or 'f-ee'. Maybe I'm weird!

Ditto. If anything, I'd say "fee" I guess. Yanno, fee-ancé. Not feye-ancé.

Or "FI" like "si" or "mi," although my photographer works for "mi belle" studio which they pronounce "MY belle"... this drives me CRAZY.

 

[ringster]

someone either has too much time on their hands (which i don''t think is the case) or someone''s brain is fried from too much wedding planning

 

[Sparkalicious]

I always think "fiance" in my head and would "say" it as the letters "F and I" ... I would have never ever thought "fee" for FI even though now I guess it kind of makes sense. I guess I "say" FI the same way that I would "say" the letters D and H whenever I see DH in someone''s posts, right?

 

[Skippy123]

hee heee

According to the dictionary it is pronounced fe (long e)-ˌän-ˈsâ (long a)
I know I am nerdy,

but when I am not sure I look things up in the dictionary.

 

[blueyes157]

I normally see the abbreviation "FI" and it just translates into my brain as "Fiance", but if I had to vote and were to pronounce the word it would be F-eye!

It is intersting to see how all our diamond and wedding crazy minds think and read things!

 

[bee*]

I don''t really think either. As someone else said, I just kind of translate it straight into fiance when I''m reading it. If I had to pick one I would probably pick F-ee, but it sounds weird.

 

[Sha]

INteresting. I never thought about how I pronounced it before. Actually, I think I just skip over the pronunciation part in my head.. but when I see it I know "okay, that means fiance". But I don''t pronounce it any particular way.

 

[Rhea]

Date: 1/16/2008 9:36:02 PM
Author: CrownJewel
there is no ''NEITHER'' option! I see FI, and I say ''fiance'' in my head. I''ve never said ''f-eye'' or ''f-ee''. Maybe I''m weird!

Same here.

Just like DH becomes "dear husband" in my head when I read.

 

[tberube]

haha....what a funny question, though valid! Haha. I always see two capital letters (F and I) and just say the letters. D-H or F-I or I-M-O. It''s like another little language in my brain, with immediate translation. I even almost refer to my fiance as "FI" in real life. No kidding - I''ve caught myself twice.

 

[mjso]

I also just pronounce the letters if I think of pronouncing it at all. I think it is just from years of online chat and video games. So for the most part I just think of it as any other abbreviation, like when someone says they are from CO, I think "Colorado", not "ko or seeo".

 

[sunnyd]

Fiance shortens to ''eff-eye'', which shortens to ''fye''. In my head at least...

 

[Pandora II]

I pronounce fiance as fee-on-say, so go with F-ee.

I'm a bit confused ... do some people pronounce fiance as fi-on-say (with fi pronounced as the fi in 'fire') I've never heard it pronounced that way before - it it an american thing???

 

[mimzy]

Date: 1/17/2008 4:58:46 PM
Author: Pandora II
I pronounce fiance as fee-on-say, so go with F-ee.


I''m a bit confused ... do some people pronounce fiance as fi-on-say (with fi pronounced as the fi in ''fire'') I''ve never heard it pronounced that way before - it it an american thing???

oh no no no. i''m pretty sure it is "fee-on-say" worldwide (or at least usa, canada and english speaking europe wide)
I was just asking how people interpreted "FI" as an abbreviation in their head.

sorry ladies for not better articulating what i was trying to say! (and for not adding more choices!)

 

[Sabine]

Date: 1/16/2008 9:36:02 PM
Author: CrownJewel
there is no ''NEITHER'' option! I see FI, and I say ''fiance'' in my head. I''ve never said ''f-eye'' or ''f-ee''. Maybe I''m weird!

Me too!

 

[Tacori E-ring]

I say F-EYE. How funny. Never thought about it before.

 

[anchor31]

lol I think "F"-"E", but that''s just because I''m a Frenchie and "i" is pronounced "e" in French.

The proper pronounciation for fiancé is "fee-An-say", not "fee-On-say", btw.

 

[musey]

Date: 1/17/2008 7:54:28 PM
Author: anchor31
lol I think 'F'-'E', but that's just because I'm a Frenchie and 'i' is pronounced 'e' in French.

The proper pronounciation for fiancé is 'fee-An-say', not 'fee-On-say', btw.

fee-AN-say like the "A" in "sand"?

Or like the "a" in middle-america "an" that sounds more like "un"?

I think mimzy meant "on" like the word "on the table." Like fee-AHn-say.

I could get into phonetics like skippers here

haha

 

[sera]

I think and pronounce MI as M-EE, things like IMO as IN MY HUMBLE OPINION and think of FI as F-EYE but pronounce like fee-AHn(the table)-say... DH I've thought of as DuH but say Dear Hubby

...dunno why but I hate the abbreviation hubby. And for that matter, I try to use the word fiancé as little as possible because when I say the word I always think of that Seinfeld episode with a character that said the word fiancé every several seconds... it's so irksome!

 

[zoebartlett]

Date: 1/16/2008 9:36:02 PM
Author: CrownJewel
there is no ''NEITHER'' option! I see FI, and I say ''fiance'' in my head. I''ve never said ''f-eye'' or ''f-ee''. Maybe I''m weird!

Me too.

 

[mintve]

neither, I usually think F.I. or fiance

 

[Keepingthefaith21]

I just think Finace in my head.

Pretty much all these new acronyms translate to their intended meaning in my head and I never stop to notice it.

I can only imagine what your FI would think if he ever picked up my cell phone and saw some of my outgoing text messages...even I am often surprised people understand what I am trying to say!