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I'm only 23 years old, and I hail from the East Coast of Canada. I've never heard anyone pronounce it "Jif", but I had read on reddit that some people have had the opposite experience, never hearing the "Giff" pronunciation.
The giff guy won't budge.
Grrh Ih Foh
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Well, if this is pronoucned "jif" then that means it's also "rejex". And what kind of world is that.
"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.
Even knowing I'm not saying it the same was as the person who coined the phrase couldn't make me change. hard G gib just sounded more correct!
In 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.
I'm French and I never heard someone pronouncing it "JIF".
There are a lot of examples in linguistics where the "correct" pronunciation of a word is not the common pronunciation, and so the common pronunciation becomes the correct one. I've heard maybe one in every twenty people pronunce it as "jif", and when they do so it's not because it seems like it's the natural pronunciation, it's because they once read it was the correct was to pronounce it and want to hammer that fac…
I mean, I can only speak from personal experience, but I always call gif, jif, and it has nothing to do with whether its correct pronunciation or not. I just read it like that and could care less about the facts
I'm only 23 years old, and I hail from the East Coast of Canada. I've never heard anyone pronounce it "Jif", but I had read on reddit that some people have had the opposite experience, never hearing the "Giff" pronunciation.