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How do y'all say GIF? (lemmy.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

In Swedish we don't really say Jay-pegg, because it doesn't flow with the rest of the language. Due to it coming at a time when file extensions were limited to three characters on Windows, most people I know pronounce it JPG (Yee-pear-gear).