I’d pronounce it Graphics Interchange Format Friend
“Sally”
The G in GIF stands for Giraffics.
anything besides the peanut butter pronunciation sounds weird
You’d pronounce it “peanut butter?”
Peter Pan?
The same as how I would pronounce “giraffe” but without the “ira” and “e”.
Gff?
Like Griff but without the r.
Like the file format.
No, the file format uses the same g sound that you get in gigantic.
The only valid reason that it’s pronounce gif is because the G stands for graphics.
But, the inventor said it’s gif, so it’s gif. You don’t pronounce gin as gin, so why would you pronounce gif as gif. Also, I always pronounced it as gif, so I’m not changing that.
Pretty sure you missed my joke.
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.
I’d rather nickname it Jeff. Jeff Bezos.
Before or after you shave it bald?
Yes.
I would pronounce it as stupid long horses.
I would pronounce it like Giraffe without the ra - unlike the GIF file format which is like Gift without the t.
If the only reason to pronounce it ‘jif’ is because of the context of it being a giraffe, then its a bad name and it also kinda proves the point of everyone who says that ‘gif’ shouldn’t be pronounced ‘jif’.
Still not “jiff”. I’m not a coward.
Exactly how it’s spelled.
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 think I see where you’re going with this…
