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In Internet terminology, what does the acronym WYSIWYG stand for?

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UGC NET 2019 Paper 1 Question Paper (5-Dec-2019) (Shift 2)
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What You See Is What You Get

WYSIWYG is a widely used computing and internet acronym that expands to What You See Is What You Get. It describes an editing or authoring interface in which the content displayed on the screen during editing looks exactly like the final output that will be printed, published or rendered. Word processors, web-page editors and email composers use WYSIWYG editors so that formatting such as fonts, colours, layout and images appear on screen precisely as they will in the finished document, without the user having to write markup or code.

The option What You See Is What You Get correctly captures both the present-tense verbs and the standard, accepted expansion of the acronym.

The choice beginning with the word Why is wrong because the letter W in WYSIWYG stands for What, not Why, and the acronym uses the present tense See and Get, not the past tense Saw and Got. The version using Where You See Is Where You Got is incorrect because the letters stand for What and See and Get, not Where and Got. The version What You See Is What You Got is close but wrong because the final word is Get (present tense), describing the immediate correspondence between the editing view and the output, not Got.

Correct answer: What You See Is What You Get

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