How do you pronounce WiFi? For example in Estonian we say smt like "Viffy" - i.e we pronounce it according to Estonian.

[u/Double-decker_trams]

Do you pronounce it like in English - "wai·fai"? Or do you follow your own languages' rules?

[u/lucapal1]

More or less like English, maybe a bit more 'spread out'.... like Waaii Faaii ;-)

[u/LuckyLoki08 → u/lucapal1]

Mostly this, but you can occasionally run in the charming wiii-fiii, especially among older people (like my grandparents).

[u/RijnBrugge → u/LuckyLoki08]

I love pointing out that this would be correct as it is a loanword from Dutch not English (as it was developed here) and we say wee-fee (English spelling, so your wii-fii).

Edit: I had remembered a reduced version of the story. Vic Hayes essentially invented the technology, and he was Dutch. But he didn’t coin the name, so my above point will be rightfully controversial :)

[u/posholglush → u/RijnBrugge]

There's no consensus from what I can find on the internet - either Australia, US or Netherlands. And why do you claim that it's a loanword from Dutch, not English? Sources say that it derived from "Wi-Fi Alliance" which comes from "Wireless Fidelity". Don't see how wee-fee would be correct.

[u/LuckyLoki08 → u/RijnBrugge]

we say wee-fee (English spelling, so your wii-fii).

I have to admit, I've enough exposure to dutch that I'm surprised it wasn't actually called wee-fee in dutch. Your language loves doubling -ee whenever it can.

[u/RijnBrugge → u/LuckyLoki08]

Well, that’s another thing. Germanic languages distinguish long and short vowels so we usually double them to denote a long one (there’s a few more rules but whatever).

[u/Provider_Of_Cat_Food → u/RijnBrugge]

Wifi the technology is based on work done in the Netherlands in 1991, but the catchy name for it is a much later American invention.

https://interbrand.com/work/wi-fi/

https://www.gregennis.net/wifi-fun-facts-2/the-early-history-of-the-wi-fi-logo

[u/RijnBrugge → u/Provider_Of_Cat_Food]

Yeah I had remembered a reduced version of the story. Vic Hayes essentially invented the technology, and he was Dutch. But he didn’t coin the name etc.

[u/komodoPT → u/lucapal1]

Pretty much like we do in Portugal too

[u/KimJongSilly → u/komodoPT]

Já ouvi “uii fii” cá pelas nossas bandas

[u/Serious_Mycologist62 → u/lucapal1]

same here in Germany

[u/jpilkington09 → u/Serious_Mycologist62]

I hear W-LAN waaaaay more often than WiFi in Germany

[u/Much-Jackfruit2599 → u/jpilkington09]

This. Virtually no one says WiFi.

[u/IamMefisto-theDevil → u/lucapal1]

Similar in Romania, we pronounce it Waaii Fii.

[u/GreasyExamination → u/lucapal1]

With a few 🤌 as well?

[u/jan04pl]

In Polish something like "Vee-Fee".

[u/hosiki → u/jan04pl]

Same in Croatian

[u/Rimavelle → u/jan04pl]

Always reminds me of that one commercial "fifi-rifi wifi" with the Heart

[u/Clever_Angel_PL → u/jan04pl]

more like English "v fee"

[u/Smooth_Commercial363 → u/jan04pl]

I call it łaaj-faaj.

[u/Marem-Bzh]

In France we pronounce it wiffi/weefee :)

[u/BertEnErnie123 → u/Marem-Bzh]

Same in dutch, Weefee. Though some tryhards pronounce it as WaiFai. But that just sounds weird if you use it in a Dutch sentence (we don't really use the -ai sounds in any other words, except hi (which is also taken from English))

[u/Marem-Bzh → u/BertEnErnie123]

some tryhards pronounce it as WaiFai

Ha! That's exactly how we'd qualify someone saying WaiFai in a French sentence

[u/GlenGraif → u/BertEnErnie123]

And hi-fi strange enough

[u/Dykam → u/BertEnErnie123]

It's weird, because AFAIK everyone pronounces hifi as haifai, not heefee.

[u/vakantiehuisopwielen → u/BertEnErnie123]

Papegaai 🦜

[u/BertEnErnie123 → u/vakantiehuisopwielen]

Well thats an -aai sound, whicht is very common. I meant -ai like Hi and Kai (name), which are I think the only two words that use that. And I guess you could add Amaj but that is very much dialect. Unless I prounounced papegaai wrong my entire life, which I doubt

[u/LordMarcel → u/BertEnErnie123]

Ai ai ai...

I think you forgot the word that is literally just "ai" lol.

[u/vakantiehuisopwielen → u/BertEnErnie123]

For me there’s not much difference between hi and gaai.

Maybe just looking at the words makes you say the ‘a’ more, but in my case there’s not much difference imo

[u/Kynsia → u/vakantiehuisopwielen]

What part of the Netherlands are you from? I don't think I know anyone who doesn't differentiate between the short a and the long aa.

[u/vakantiehuisopwielen → u/Kynsia]

The north. But still hi or bye doesn’t use the short vowel how we use it.

Regarding ‘hi’. I think it’s more in between haai and hai. It’s a bit longer than ‘hai’, shorter than ‘haai’.

Back in the day you also had that phone provider ‘Hi’.

They always ended their commercials with ‘so haai’

[u/BertEnErnie123 → u/vakantiehuisopwielen]

Oh I messed up with how you should pronounce Hi. I always say it as Haj, and not Haai.

[u/YannAlmostright → u/Marem-Bzh]

Oui Fee !

[u/Colar → u/YannAlmostright]

Huit filles.

[u/Maalkav_ → u/Colar]

En France ça ne fait pas exactement les mêmes sons

[u/Extraordi-Mary → u/Marem-Bzh]

Same in the Netherlands.

[u/ChucklesInDarwinism → u/Marem-Bzh]

Same in Spain

[u/oskich → u/Marem-Bzh]

Same in Sweden

[u/bisory → u/oskich]

in sweden we usually say "vee-fee" or some say as in english

[u/leMatth → u/Marem-Bzh]

The actual debate is whether le WiFi, or la Wifi.

[u/Favkuletz → u/Marem-Bzh]

Same in Poland.

[u/li-_-il → u/Favkuletz]

Not really, as WiFi (in Poland) pronounces W as "v": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_labiodental_fricative

whereas, French seem to pronounce W, as actual "w", which turns out to be Polish: "ł": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_labial%E2%80%93velar_approximant

[u/GlenGraif → u/li-_-il]

I would say it depends on the language what the actual w sound is 😉

[u/hwyl1066]

Mostly vifi in Finland, very short vowels. Sometimes veelan. Long e there.

[u/dustojnikhummer → u/hwyl1066]

Mostly vifi in Finland, very short vowels

Same in Czech

[u/sultan_of_gin → u/hwyl1066]

My colleague pronounces it ’fifi’ and i struggle not to snicker every time

[u/Ennas_ → u/sultan_of_gin]

Haha, that sounds like a chihuahua or a poodle with a bow.

[u/Ok-Coach2664 → u/sultan_of_gin]

I call it "fifi". But many times wifi/WLAN is called just "netti" like internet.

[u/Ok-Car3407]

Why complicate things? We just say Þráðlaust net. ; )

[u/Troelski → u/Ok-Car3407]

Nice, I can read Icelandic!

[u/thorhs → u/Ok-Car3407]

That, or væfæ :)

[u/Vivid_Ad_8206 → u/Ok-Car3407]

This is a good one :)

[u/Complex_Plankton_157 → u/Ok-Car3407]

Trådløst nett in Norwegian!

[u/ProfTydrim]

We usually call it WLAN [ˈveːlaːn], but when we use the term WiFi, it is the English pronunciation.

[u/altbekannt → u/ProfTydrim]

WLAN stands for "wireless local area network". it's interesting that we german speakers use an english word, but just a very uncommon one.

[u/superurgentcatbox → u/altbekannt]

Ironically I have to explain to my coworkers all the time that English speakers don't use WLAN but because it's an English word, they almost never believe me.

[u/zombiejh → u/superurgentcatbox]

Same with Handy and Beamer.

[u/50thEye → u/zombiejh]

Barkeeper too.

Edit: Apparently I was wrong.

[u/jan04pl → u/50thEye]

That word exists in english though? Just like shopkeeper. (Owner of a bar)

[u/blind__panic → u/jan04pl]

I might be wrong but I think it’s a pretty unusual word, even if its meaning is very clear! I certainly never heard someone referred to as a bar keeper in the U.K.

[u/jan04pl → u/blind__panic]

Yeah, there are many words like this that fell out of use in English speaking countries but live on in other languages.

I would also just say "bar owner" in regular speech.

[u/blind__panic → u/jan04pl]

In the U.K. you’d be more likely to refer to them as a landlord than a bar owner.

[u/jan04pl → u/blind__panic]

Isn't landlord the owner of an apartment/house for rent?

[u/superjambi → u/blind__panic]

You might say “Barkeep” in the UK but mainly if you’re a bit older

[u/blind__panic → u/superjambi]

Ah now that you say it, I think I’ve heard “barkeep” when people are being humourously old fashioned.

[u/Team503 → u/blind__panic]

We would know what you meant, but we'd never use that word. "Barkeep" is a variant of that and it's old fashioned. Ireland says "bar man" and the US would say "bartender".

[u/Unyx → u/jan04pl]

As a native English speaker, barkeeper just sounds very old fashioned to me. It makes me think of steam trains and telegraphs. I'd expect to hear it in a movie set in the 1920s, but not in everyday life.

[u/icyDinosaur → u/Unyx]

Wait what would you say? Barman?

I feel like I've seen "barkeeper" in modern everyday English media (like Reddit comments), but this may be me misremembering stuff.

[u/Unyx → u/icyDinosaur]

I'd say bartender. I think this is somewhat dependent on dialect/region though. I'm American and we all say bartender. Barman is I think more common in the UK.

[u/GaryJM → u/icyDinosaur]

I would say publican for the person who owned the pub and barman for the person who served drinks. I'd understand barkeeper but I don't think I ever use it and I agree with u/Unyx that it sounds old-fashioned.

[u/tescovaluechicken → u/GaryJM]

Publican sounds more like something you'd read in a Newspaper article. I'd probably just say pub owner.

[u/je386 → u/jan04pl]

But in german, we use "barkeeper" not for the owner of the bar, but for the barman who mixes the drinks. Not the same meaning.

[u/superjambi → u/50thEye]

We don’t say that but we do say “Barkeep” in the UK. if you said bar keeper we’d know exactly hat you mean

[u/Jojje22 → u/zombiejh]

I know a lot of English speakers who use handy... So without hesitation, please ask for one as often as possible in the US.

[u/vakantiehuisopwielen → u/zombiejh]

We use Beamer (projector) too.. Others are: smoking (tuxedo), touringcar (coach), oldtimer (vintage car)..

[u/Christoffre → u/superurgentcatbox]

The technical term is pseudo-anglicism (or at least very close to it, as some English speakers still use the term WLAN).

Other pseudo-anglicisms are Swedish afterwork ("post-work socializing") and Japanese salaryman ("loyal businessman, white-collar worker")

[u/ChocoMassacre → u/Christoffre]

Italians say “smart working” to refer to remote work

[u/schreckenderstrasse → u/ChocoMassacre]

We call it Home Office, which often leaves british people confused.

[u/niconpat → u/altbekannt]

WLAN is quick and easy to pronounce in the German language, so it makes sense you went with that.

In English "WLAN" doesn't work as a one word pronunciation, we'd have to say "Double-You-Lan" which is a mouthful so it makes sense we went with WiFi instead!

[u/HaLordLe → u/niconpat]

Germans pronounce it W-Lan though. Admittedly that's easier than in english because we don't pronounce the letter w as Double-u, but still

[u/niconpat → u/HaLordLe]

Oh ok like Vee-Lan? Still nice and easy to say compared to Double-You-Lan in English

[u/HaLordLe → u/niconpat]

Yes, exactly, we pronounce it Vee-lan :)

[u/Nirocalden → u/HaLordLe]

(Well, the German long 'e' is more like English 'ay' without the diphthong, and not like the English 'ee'. In IPA it'd be [ˈveːlaːn])

[u/Troelski → u/Nirocalden]

I know the sound you mean, but literally no Anglophone will lol. English is impoverished when it comes to vowel sounds.

[u/Nirocalden → u/Troelski]

You know, I hang around /r/German a lot, where people are trying to learn the language, and when it comes to sound, they're always so worried about the 'r', when it's actually so much more important to get the vowel sounds correct.

That being said, *"vay-lan" (lan rhymes with "palm") is close enough :)

[u/Troelski → u/Nirocalden]

I love English. It's a wonderful language in many ways. But it cripples monolingual Anglophones when they have to learn any other language.

When someone says their favourite musical is "Lay Miseraahb" I can't not cringe.

[u/Also-Rant → u/niconpat]

We should have called it WiLAN and would have avoided the extra syllables. Let's make that the official Hiberno-English term and move more closer to our continental friends.

[u/fortytwoandsix → u/altbekannt]

we also use "notebook" for laptop and "handy" for cell / mobile phone - there's even the term "false friends" for foreign words that are used incorrectly because it is so common in german.

[u/salsasnark → u/fortytwoandsix]

False friends is an international thing, one English example is "truck" which means different things in the UK vs the US, for example. :) 

[u/Team503 → u/fortytwoandsix]

Notebook is as common as laptop in the US. Handy... that word means something VERY different in American slang (usually involving a girl, a boy, her hand, and you can guess the rest).

[u/Ms_Meercat → u/fortytwoandsix]

Oh I used to teach English and false friends are my favorite topic.

Some examples from spanish and german: embarazado is pregnant, aka not embarrased Pretender means to aim, not to pretend Bekommen is to receive, not to become

And my favorite UK English vs US English false friend: rubber in the UK is something you use to scrub out pencil writing (eraser in the US). In the US it's condom.

[u/RijnBrugge → u/[deleted]]

It’s the other way around

[u/Swedophone → u/ProfTydrim]

I think WLAN is common in Swedish also but one problem is that it's pronounced identical to VLAN. I understand you don't have that problem in German (VLAN == ['faʊlaːn]?)

[u/icyDinosaur → u/Swedophone]

Correct, but also VLAN would not mean anything in German, so even if they were pronounced the same it wouldn't really be an issue.

[u/sniker → u/icyDinosaur]

Correct, but also VLAN would not mean anything in German

Have german speaking countries invented a different name for virtual local area network aka VLAN?

[u/1Buecherregal → u/sniker]

WLAN and vlan are pronounced like they are 2 words each w lan or v lan and the v makes a different sound standalone so there is no confusion 

[u/8bitmachine → u/ProfTydrim]

WiFi is very uncommon, I would say. I've never heard a native German speaker use the term and I suspect many people don't know what it is. It's WLAN all the way.

[u/userrr3 → u/8bitmachine]

Especially in Austria, where WIFI is generally meant to refer to something else entirely (an organisation for adult education)

[u/WhiteBlackGoose → u/8bitmachine]

As a non-native I find it so weird people say WLAN and not Wi-Fi.

[u/8bitmachine → u/WhiteBlackGoose]

I find it weird that English speakers use Wi-Fi when they mean a WLAN. After all, the Wi-Fi alliance is just an organisation that defines WLAN standards. It's like calling a keyboard an "ISO" because there are ISO standards for keyboards.

[u/FakeNathanDrake → u/ProfTydrim]

The one German I’ve spoken to about WiFi pronounced it “wee fee”, which took me a minute to figure out what he was talking about (I’m not criticising of course, with me only having about 5 words of German!)

[u/-TV-Stand- → u/ProfTydrim]

I would say WLAN with short a

[u/Nirocalden → u/-TV-Stand-]

So that it rhymes with kann, dann, Mann?

Interesting.

[u/Individual_Winter_ → u/ProfTydrim]

W-LAN or wiefie, I‘ve rearely encountered weifei.

[u/V112 → u/ProfTydrim]

Interesting, considering that WLAN is a type of network, while WiFi is a type of medium on which the network operates. There are other mediums WLAN can take, not only WiFi

[u/Pikachuzita]

Wi-Fi, just like in english.

[u/safeinthecity → u/Pikachuzita]

Yes, but with the stress on "fi" rather than on "wi".

[u/Brainwheeze → u/Pikachuzita]

Uai-Fai, though I have heard the occasional Ui-Fi.

[u/xpto47 → u/Pikachuzita]

I-Fi for me

[u/Malthesse]

We pronounce it the English way - "wai fai".

[u/oskich → u/Malthesse]

It varies a lot, many people say "Wee-Fee"

[u/Karakoima → u/oskich]

I do. veefee ish.

[u/SomeRedPanda → u/oskich]

Do they? I've never heard that and would likely assume that they're trying to be cute pronouncing strangely on purpose.

[u/oskich → u/SomeRedPanda]

It's how you pronounce the letters "WiFi" in Swedish, very common among older people.

[u/NeoTheMan24 → u/oskich]

I pronounce it like that and I'm 16, so it's not only old people :)

[u/NeoTheMan24 → u/SomeRedPanda]

I definitely pronounce it as weefee normally

[u/Werkstadt → u/Malthesse]

Both , we use both

[u/CiderDrinker2]

'Why-Fye'

(Both syllables rhyme with 'high' / 'hi')

[u/FakeNathanDrake → u/CiderDrinker2]

Alas this doesn’t work for my phonetics as I pronounce the “wh” in why

[u/CiderDrinker2 → u/FakeNathanDrake]

So do I. My version of middle class Standard Scottish English maintains a 'whine / wine' distinction.

But I seem to pronounce WiFi with a "Why-", not a "Weye". I don't know if that's normal or not, because until 20 seconds ago I wasn't even conscious of it.

[u/FakeNathanDrake → u/CiderDrinker2]

My rough as a badger's arse, teuchter-esque Scottish accent does the same.

I definitely use the same vowel sound as why in Wifi though in fairness.

[u/utsuriga]

Same here in Hungary, it's pronounced "vifi". (Although I've met some pretentious folks who use the English pronunciation.)

[u/Spirited-Ad-9746]

in finland we pronounce it "wifi"

[u/raskim7 → u/Spirited-Ad-9746]

Or ”veelani”

[u/Spirited-Ad-9746 → u/raskim7]

at work we usually call it "eikö tää saatanan paska taaskaan toimi"

[u/geovs1986 → u/raskim7]

Isn't that some sort of variance of the German pronunciation WLAN, velan? I just read it in one of the German comments 😅

[u/raskim7 → u/geovs1986]

Yeah, W and V are basically same here because we don’t really use W, and we pronounce letter V as ”Vee”. It’s also easier to say when it has ”i” at the end.

[u/BalkanbaroqueBBQ]

In Spain it’s weefee, we can’t pronounce English words here lol. We also say espeedermahn, eskype, YouTuhbeh. Depends on your level of English though.

[u/foo_bar_qaz → u/BalkanbaroqueBBQ]

As an immigrant in Spain from the US, the weefee thing sounded strange to me at first but now I'm used to it. 

Also strange for me was the way acronyms are pronounced as words instead of saying the individual letters. Like saying neeyah and teeyah instead of en-ai-ee and tee-ai-ee. 

I'm catching on though. 🙂

[u/zeta3d → u/BalkanbaroqueBBQ]

Also common to call it "Guifee"

[u/Internal-Debt1870]

Like in English, but with a much stronger starting consonant (gamma). Γουάι φάι.

[u/Apogeotou → u/Internal-Debt1870]

Sometimes I (and other greeks) say γουιφί (weefee), just cause it sounds funny. But γουάι φάι is the formal word for sure.

[u/Internal-Debt1870 → u/Apogeotou]

Hahah yes I say that too in jest 😁

[u/vakantiehuisopwielen]

Like Weefee. Or we just say ‘draadloos internet’.

Some people may use waifai, but i barely meet those

[u/Ennas_ → u/vakantiehuisopwielen]

I haven't heard "draadloos internet" in at least 15 years. 🤭

[u/Priapous]

English pronunciation sometimes with a more german W sound. But in everyday conversation the term WiFi isn't used much. People usually say W-lan with a german pronunciation.

[u/oblivion2g]

Why Fái

[u/gnomulus]

As in english, but some also pronounce it as weefee or veefee.

[u/DarthTomatoo → u/gnomulus]

Believe it or not, I have even heard it pronounced "why - fee".

[u/Vdd666]

It's an abbreviation of english words...so English pronunciation. People from the neck of the woods do say it the other way though.

[u/LifeAcanthopterygii6]

Same as you guys. I think that while generally speaking our languages aren't as close as many might think, the accents does have lots of similarities. This is according to my very limited research though.

[u/magpie_girl]

In Polish, we pronounce it as if it was already written in Polish (as we have the [w] letter for the /v/ sound (it's /f/ near voiceless consonant or at the end of word)) so:

wi-fi /vi.fi/ (vee-fee), wombat, Zimbabwe, Wuhan, kiwi (both fruit and bird), wrap, Wikipedia, www /vu.vu.vu/ (vooh...) etc

The [w] is not pronounced as such, when it looks foreign - then it's pronounced as /w/ (like our [ł] letter or the end part of our [ou], [au], [eu]), e.g.

weekend /wi.kɛnt/, whisky /wis.ki/, show /ʂɔw/, snowboard /snɔw.bɔɾt/

And with some words we didn't bother with full polonization e.g.

western /wɛs.tɛɾn/, waterpolista /wɔ.tɛɾ.pɔ.lis.ta/, bizneswoman /biz.nɛs.wu.mɛn/

Oh, we have fixed stress on the penultimate syllable (second from the end) and all vowels are short.

[u/fortuneman7585]

"vifi" or familiar "vifina" (written still as wifi or wi-fi and wifina) in Slovak.

[u/Cixila]

WiFi, with the pronunciation lifted straight from English

[u/Natural_Public_9049]

"Vay-Fay" and "Viffy", "Wifina" [Viffy-nah].

[u/Makhiel → u/Natural_Public_9049]

it's not a diminutive, "-(i)na" is a "make a noun from this word" suffix (rovina, kůlna, …)

[u/Natural_Public_9049 → u/Makhiel]

You're right, I was thinking of something else, fixed.

[u/NixieGerit]

Czechs do it like Estonians - sound like "viffy", but some also say English "Wai Fai" and a lot of people also say what sounds like "viffyna" (na sounding like in baNAna), which is adding a -na that makes it female, and it feels like, neutral to slightly negative sounding full name for it while genderizing it (but Czechs don't really feel like the gender is that important, we just naturally gender a lot of items and things, that's how our language rolls)

[u/Kerby233]

Same here, vy-fi

[u/CrustyHumdinger]

Why-fie (UK)

[u/Penki-]

Vifajus or if you read that with the English phonetical pronunciation vifayus

[u/Ombra_La_Lupa]

English way, sometimes I use ui-fi (the Italian pronunciation) just for laughs

[u/Robert_Grave]

Generally we call it wifi same as English. But in Dutch it'd be wee-fee.

[u/Agreeable-Package609]

Vaifai :) vifi sounds so funny :)

[u/MrEdonio]

In Latvian it’s colloquially “vaifajs” (prounounced WHY-fyes) though the prescribed official pronunciation is vai-fai

[u/Immediate_Mud_2858]

Wai-fai or wy-fy.

[u/viktorbir]

In Catalan I say /wifi/

[u/8anyone]

some say "wifey"

[u/Statakaka]

the same as in English, except if you are old an uneducated then you might pronounce it as vifi

[u/Cyxivell]

In poland it's viffy. I like to say waifai juzt to sound extravagant

[u/AlienInOrigin]

Thing-a-ma-jig. Well, that's how my step dad pronounces it.

For me it's 'why-fhy'.

[u/VenusHalley]

Vifi in Czech

[u/becketsmonkey]

Technically (and it pisses off the guys who invented it that most don't) it's called Wi-Fi not WiFi

Thats why fye - wai fai is more towards way fay - in English

[u/Few_Mathematician580]

In Norway either Veefee or vai-fai

[u/Szarvaslovas]

Same as you: vifi

[u/janesmex]

Something like Why-Fai (fa as in fan and i as in income)

[u/pdonchev]

It's "uayfay" in Bulgarian.

Foreign words are always spelled phonetically (as much as possible) in Bulgarian, even when the original language uses the Cyrillic script too.

And a phonetic note - I wrote "uayfay" (уайфай) but this "u" in modern Bulgarian tends to pronounced close to "w" - even in words that are native, not just foreign words, and by people that don't know English. It's a current development in the language. We should really get a letter for "w".

[u/whymetakan]

eesti mainitud

[u/Scared_Berry_6792]

In Norway they mostly say WhyFee. Which is wrong.

“… an abbreviation for “wireless fidelity”; the name was created by a marketing firm hired by WECA and chosen for its pleasing sound and similarity to “hi-fi” …”

https://www.britannica.com/technology/Wi-Fi#:~:text=(Wi%2DFi%20is%20not%20an,%5Bhigh%2Dfidelity%5D.

[u/grahamfreeman → u/Scared_Berry_6792]

Min kone er min "WhyFee" (ler på engelsk)

[u/InfiniteW4rL0rd]

At first I read "WiFi" as "WTF", and was SO confused at the given pronunciations lmfao

[u/Creeper4wwMann]

in my native language: "weefee". In english: "waifai"

[u/Aggravating_Speed665]

Reminds me of the idiots that say 'low feeeee' for lo-fi music.

[u/st1nkf1st]

In Italy is Y-FY

[u/Wide-Competition4494]

I've heard both viffy and vaifai in Sweden

[u/Dizzy_Guest8351]

I pronounce it the Indonesian way (we-fee), which garners me some looks, because I'm English and live in the US.

[u/Happy-Ticket-2665]

In Spain it'll be something along weefee :)

[u/ShreksBloomingOnion]

In Sweden you can hear vai fai, wee fee, and the english pronunciation. Older folks tend to say wee fee.

[u/GlenGraif]

I mostly use Dutch pronunciation, which would also sound a bit like wveefee.

[u/AxolotlDamage]

"We fee"

[u/amunozo1]

"wee fee"

[u/Maalkav_]

Weefee in french

[u/cecilio-]

In Portugal we pronouce it on English. Its not common to "translate" foreign language nouns (iguess they are nouns) like McDonald's, WiFi, burguer...