How dare you come here with this blasphemy.
g as in gif
g as in gnome
Wrong, it’s pronounced “gif”
g as in genuine ginormous gendered giraffes gesticulating gingerly
‘G’ as in “Gary my guy, it’s great you have the guts to be wrong again!”
I wish it was gnuf
GIF
“Gee Eye Eff”
I got real self righteous there for a second, but i see they included the wrong pronunciation as well
FUCK ALL Y’ALL ‘JIF’ MOTHERFUCKERS
How do you pronounce laser
Hard R
jaser
There are several arguments for why it should be pronounced a given way and OP didn’t say any of them.
I see you just picked your favorite to argue against.
They’ll bend over in a jiffy.
Looks like Wikipedia decided to let the users battle it out since they have both listed. Both the right and the wrong way.
My opinion, I always use a hard F.
wow, they used to use the hard F on Family guy?
Me on mobile: Huh, interesting…
Piss off both sides and just spell it. G.I.F.
The notorious G I F
I feel like that’s a win for hard G honestly.
But the letter “G” has a soft “g” in its pronunciation. Otherwise, you’re talking about clarified butter.
The letter G is pronounced Jee, with a J sound. Not Gee
Just say the full name outright: “Graphically Integrated Framework”
i’ve forgotten most of my IPA so this is really helpful
Enough IPA and I tend to forget things as well.
Pronounced ‘chief.’
More like Gee-f
Okay, so like a GIF Wrangler
Like Ask Jeeves but with a ffff
The only thing I know about this is that it’s unnecessary to start another “internet war” over how someone pronounced terms like this one, since both pronunciation are recognizable (even my friends often spelled in with different results thanks to their accents and our local language too)
I first read that as a hitman image format.
Giraffe-ic Interchange Format.
Weird that they don’t have the pronunciation listed for giraffe the same way
This also generally works wherever you see a dotted underline.
Are they always wrong though?
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Jay-Phegg
yeah well jayphegg yourself buddy
I’m not your buddy friend
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No: JPEG, the P is for Photo.
I pronounce that as gay peg
You must make a lot of new friends.
at the leather store, yes
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Meaning?
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Well that makes no sense. If your view is that “it’s an acronym or it isn’t” then you pronounce it as individual letters or as a word. But the reality of language is much messier than arbitrary rules people come up with. If people pronounce it as if it’s a word in its own right, that means that’s how it works. Just as with laws of physics, if what we observe contradicts the rule, the rule was wrong.
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choosing to pronounce “gif” with a hard “g” is an arbitrary renunciation of the standards of the language.
Right. That’s why people naturally started pronouncing it with a hard ‘g’ to begin with…
What rule? I just go by what I read in the 90s about what the creators thought.
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But gif is not an acronym its an abbreviation.
Acronyms are abbreviations. Maybe you mean an initialism?
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