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My giant giraffe agrees.
If you're still unconvinced, say "G"
The letter starts with the J sound.
Checkmate atheists.
I may sound haughty and knowledgable when I say JiF then, but between just you and me, I didn't know a damn thing about this and just decided to say it this way in my brain for reasons that remain unclear.
Me too. I just always said it with a soft G because my brain told me that's how it was pronounced.
Strange that I never got a notification for this. Hm.
I've always pronounced it that way for whatever reason, and when I learned that was the correct way I was very high and mighty, lol
Oh yeah? Well lick my gargantuan gorilla gonads.
(I'm actually team jif but can't help myself)
Yes but actually no
Was it a gift?
Yeah, from a gyrating genie named George.
Jorge wants to have a word with you.
What does horhay want?
"Hiff"
Good god Gordon go gag a gator
Oooh, that's how grammar works in English language? Okay, so me as a developer of some obscure thing from this point forward are instructing everyone to pronounce "home" as "hume", since that's how you pronounce "o" in "tomb". I decided that solely because my software is loosely related to the meaning of the word. K thx bai.
Did you invent the word home? No? So you don't get to decide how to pronounce it.
Neither did the author of graphic format. GIF is not a word, but initialism, like NSA, FBI, NASA, IBM, etc. And there are specific rules how they are read and pronounced.
NASA is an acronym, not an initialism. And guess how the last letter of NASA is pronounced versus how the A in the corresponding word is pronounced. Ah vs Uh.
Irrelevant comment to the discussion at hand as the matter is not set in stone in English language. More to the point it doesn't change the fact how GIF is pronounced. Even if you consider it an acronym it's still a form of abbreviation and not a word on its own with known heritage, hence the general rules on how to pronounce letter
gdo not apply.Had the word originate from French part of the English dictionary (like gin, giraffe, etc.) then
gis pronounced asjbefore vowelseandiand would make sense. But Germanic words (such as gift, geese) still use hardg. So applying normal rules is pointless, since English has no such thing.In short, it's pronounced whatever the way people pronounce it. End of story.
O.k.
Wait till you hear about ghoti...
Haha, good one!
technically starts with the D sound
Now you're just getting crazy
I always think all the arguments are ridiculous because it’s essentially saying that someone is pronouncing a product (not a word) that they created incorrectly. This product even has a catchphrase for it. There’s literally nothing you can say to contradict that. It’s a product with a catchphrase that describes how to pronounce it. If you pronounce it differently then you do you, but you are wrong.
It's also pretty funny when it's about actual product you will get corrected to the intended pronunciation, or at least, allowed because people acknowledge there might be multiple way of reading a word based on where you from. Like potato and tomato.