WYSIWYG

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Etymology

Coined by John Seybold and popularized at Xerox PARC during the late 1970s.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈwɪz.iˌwɪɡ/, /ˈwɪz.ə.wɪɡ/, X-SAMPA: /"wIz.i%wIg/, /"wIz.@.%wIg/

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Acronym

WYSIWYG

1. what you see is what you get.

Noun

WYSIWYG (plural WYSIWYGs)

1. (computing) Software that allows editing on screen what the printed version would be like; software with a what-you-see-is-what-you-get display interface.
   • 2003, James H. Pence, How to Do Everything with HTML & XHTML‎, page 132:

     WYSIWYGs are helpful tools in that they enable you to create pages much more quickly

Translations

computer program that allows editing on screen what the printed version would be like

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 所見即所得 (cmn), 所见即所得 (cmn) (suǒjiàn jí suǒdé)

• Finnish: WYSIWYG (fi)
• German: WYSIWYG (de), wirklichkeitsgetreue Darstellung auf dem Bildschirm
• Hebrew: מה שאתה רואה זה מה שאתה מקבל (he) (informal; there is no formal translation)

• Hungarian: WYSIWYG (hu)
• Portuguese: o que você vê é o que você tem (pt)
• Romanian: ceea ce vezi e ceea ce vei obține (ro)
• Russian: что видишь, то и получишь (ru) (što vídiš, to i polúčiš), WYSIWYG (ru) (WYSIWYG)