I’d pronounce it Graphics Interchange Format Friend
The G in GIF stands for Giraffics.
“Sally”
Did you know SCUBA is an acronym?
Like Griff but without the r.
Like the file format.
No, the file format uses the same g sound that you get in gigantic.
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Pretty sure you missed my joke.
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Ranting on the internet seems like a weird gig. And you seem like a git.
Kidding of course, but you get the point. It goes both ways.
The creator of the format is actually just a hilarious troll. He knew what he was doing.
I use a hard G when pronouncing gif, and the inventor using a hard G is a good enough reason for me. But the argument that the G stands for graphics being the reason for it is a garbage argument. There are plenty of acronyms that are pronounced differently than the letters that make up those acronyms. For example the U in SCUBA is pronounced as a long U as in rule or June, but stands for underwater, which is pronounced as a short U.
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anything besides the peanut butter pronunciation sounds weird
You’d pronounce it “peanut butter?”
Peter Pan?
I suppose I would pronounce it like, “Giff”.
Exactly how it’s spelled.
I would rather nickname it 'raff
The same as how I would pronounce “giraffe” but without the “ira” and “e”.
Gff?
Girlfriends forever.
I would pronounce it as stupid long horses.
Probably like the peanut butter, because I wouldn’t want it to be confused with my gorilla with the name spelled the same way, but pronounced with a hard ‘g’ sound.
I would pronounce it with a Ezh (Ʒ) (the sound in pleasure), as that’s the sound we use to pronounce it in my language.
Still not “jiff”. I’m not a coward.
Jiff is the minority opinion, how would it be cowardly to use it?
I’d rather nickname it Jeff. Jeff Bezos.
Before or after you shave it bald?
Yes.
I’d quit using nicknames because of my lack of creativity and style
Giff with a hard g.
Yes there are many examples of soft g before i, like gist. But English orthography isn’t self-consistent, so ultimately all these arguments become reductio ad absurdam.
G in GIF stands for Graphics. Period.I agree that g for graphics isn’t a terribly good argument one way or another. But the reductio ad absurdam part is the more important bit. All language, ultimately, is arbitrary, with successful information exchange being the only measure that really matters. It’s especially so for something like GIF that occurs far more often in text than speech.
I find the “G stands for graphics” an extremely weak argument. In English the pronunciation of acronyms never seem to consider the pronunciation of the original words. Examples include scuba and laser. If you pronounced those like the letters in the original words, they would be pronounced scuhba and laseer.
That said, pronounce it how you want, I don’t care. You don’t need a reason to pronounce it one way or another beyond “this is the way I heard first” or “this is the way I hear the most”. But the “graphics” reason is not a good one because (at least in English) nothing else follows that rule.
I choose giraffics.
In that case, my vote is on GIF with the voiced postalveolar fricative /ʒ/ from genre and measure.
It’s ✯✯fancy✯✯
I would pronounce it Harold
