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by yen223 3566 days ago
Gbuy is an ... awkward name for a Singaporean service.
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It's pretty common. We have G-Cloud Cloudstore [1] and GeBIZ [2] among other things.

[1] https://www.ida.gov.sg/programmes-partnership/sectors/G-Clou... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeBIZ

They're alluding to the fact that Gbuy sounds similar to a Hokkien profanity :)
Probably the reason why they label it as "GovBuy" instead ;)