Doesn't the G stand for Graphics? That has a hard G, so I pronounce GIF with one too.
Poll: "Giff" or "Jif"?
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#12In France, G and J have the opposite sound: J sounds like G, and G like J. Makes sense? ;-)
As such, everybody pronounces it "JIF" here. And it seems to go in the author's direction, so it's fine.
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#13"They are wrong. It is a soft ‘G,’ pronounced ‘jif.’ End of story.": http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/an-honor-for-the-cr...
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#14Who the fuck cares.
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#15For me it has always been Jee Eye Ef. No confusion.
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#16"They are wrong. It is a soft ‘G,’ pronounced ‘jif.’ End of story.": http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/an-honor-for-the-cr...
Most linguists would agree that it is logically contradictory to state that the majority of speakers pronounce a word incorrectly, because the correct pronunciation is determined by observing how people actually say a word, and not how one very special person thinks other people should pronounce it.
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#17Jif, like this file loads in a jif compared to a bitmap.
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#18If you have to pronounce it, you're working the Internet wrong...
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#20I've pronounced it like JIF since the mid-90's when I first learned of GIFs. I've had to send many people here to prove I wasn't crazy: http://www.olsenhome.com/gif/
Thank you. I had no idea that PNG was supposed to be pronounced "Ping" (I always say Pee Enn Gee)