FYI

• eff why eye, eff-why-eye

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• IPA^(key): /ˌɛfwaɪˈaɪ/
• Rhymes: -aɪ

FYI

1. Initialism of for your information.

   FYI, there are donuts in the break room. [sentence adverbial use]

   I just wanted to give you an FYI about the donuts in the break room. [noun use]

   He forwards so many FYIs that sometimes it feels a bit like the boy who cried wolf. [noun use]

   • 1948 June 14, “Don Burke, chief of Time Inc.'s Cairo bureau”, in Time:

     At the close of a recent cable describing the recovery of his censor-held photographs of the fighting in the Holy Land, Life photographer John Phillips added the casual postscript: "FYI, Burke narrowly escaped death outside Jerusalem a few days ago."

   • 2024 September 24, Beth Gillette, “I Tested Apostrophe, and I’ll Never Get Acne Meds From My Derm’s Office Again”, in Cosmopolitan‎^[1], archived from the original on 24 September 2024:

     But I’ve only ever used it combined with hormonal birth control, FYI, and I’m currently not on any birth control.

• Although its usage long predates the internet and text messaging, FYI is now probably used most frequently in electronic communications.

• -ify, yif