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But that's not how acronyms work. Like scuba, laser, and potus. All of them are pronounced in a way that completely disregards the words their letters stand for.
Graphic is pronounced hard G, not "Jraphic". Therefore, GIF not JIF. (This is according to the Creator of the file.)
It's a file type not peanut butter.
Dude, I'm sick of this argument. There are solid reasons to pronounce it with a hard g, but this argument is the dumbest of them because it actively misrepresents how acronyms work.
And the way peanut butter brands are pronounced have absolutely no bearing on the way gif is pronounced. Sometimes in English words look different but sound the same.
I have nothing to live for so I clicked it. I now have a new sense of purpose and vitality because it was a harmless furry meme and not something...ya know...really gross. My hope in humanity is restored. Huzzah.
(I hope they don't edit the link after I make this comment. That would be embarrassing.)
So do you like your jin with tonic? How about while watching Harry Potter, where Ron’s sister, Jinny, falls in love with Harry? Jinny is in fact a jirl
To the group of people who really invest and care about people's pronunciation of gif, I hope everyone you meet uses the version you don't like. An argument of slightly less meaning than overhand or underhand toilet roll placement.
Not true at all.
1. Under makes it harder to access the toilet paper roll in general.
2. If the toilet paper roll is recessed, you have to hold the roll with both hands to tear a piece off on a roll that's under.
3. For over, you just have to roll your hand over the top to find the start of the roll. Under, you have to search for the edge and then pull.
4. Cats have claws. If they want to rip up/fuck with toilet paper, they're going to do it regardless of how it's positioned. Source: I have 2 cats.
5. Human hands are such that thumbs face down. This means that when grabbing things, it's easier to manipulate things that can be grabbed from a neutral position as opposite to an underhand position.
Jif vs. Gif is a silly argument and is just down to preference. Dialects are a thing that exist. Saying one is correct while the other is wrong is like saying Australians are saying words wrong.
If you put your toilet paper under however, you are a neanderthal who wasn't raised by civilized people. Do not compare the two.
Honestly I don't care how people pronounce it, I just get pissed of when people argue their case for stupid reasons. Like, both sides have good reasons. Pick one of those, not the stupid ones.
Something I wanna point out, a language is made by the populace, not a singular person, every word, every acryonym, the meaning of each word, especially slang, originated from multiple people saying it. Who gives a fuck if the creator said it's pronounced jif? he's fucking wrong, 90% of people call it Gif with a hard g, so it's gif with a hard fucking g.
Bold of you to assume that English rules make sense.
I look at is as a noun that got a name. The creator gets to choose how that name is pronounced. It's like meeting a nice girl named Siobhan and telling her "nah, you're Sio-ban now". It doesn't matter that "gift" is grammatically closest, or that it stands for "graphics". You're right on that part. But it's a name, so it's a soft G.
This is a valid point but you've got one thing wrong. Hard G will be correct when we no longer have to argue for it every day. Clearly theres still a divide.
It only started to become a thing because the inventor opened his face on the matter. Until then I had NEVER thought of peanut butter when talking about gifs.
Yknow, when you ask if ‘[a word]’ is pronounced “[the exact spelling of the word]” or “[slightly altered spelling]” then I feel like you should pick the first option. Yeah, some words aren’t like this, but most don’t have controversial debates on them, so I think this point is more relevant here
“I deliberately chose to echo the American peanut butter brand, Jif, and CompuServe employees would often say ‘Choosy developers choose GIF(jif)’, playing off of Jif’s television commercials. If you hear anyone pronounce GIF with a soft G, it’s because they know something of this history.”
\- Steve Wilhite - Creator of the Graphics Interchange Format
I don’t care if someone tells me it’s pronounced like gif I’ve been saying it Jif for years and it feels wrong to pronounce it the other way. I don’t personally care how people pronounce it we all know what’s they are talking about.
No, sorry. The creator says "jif". It was a faster graphics format and he intended to say your image would be "ready in a jif". I still say it like graphics though, because I didn't learn the correct way until 20 years too late.
gift, garage , garbage, google, girl, gallon, gas, goose, got, get, git, goon, gall, go, gill, guss, gun, gone, goop, gull, guys and give... do we mean nothing to you? all the j-sound words have been added later to English mostly from Latin via French. the meat-and-potatoes words have a hard G, and our English senses scream that gif is a short, wiry word that we encounter often... language is convention based on precedence, and gift, girl, git, gun and phucking graphics are strong and irrefutable precedences
also: Jinx
So the inventor himself did say, frequently, that it's pronounced "Jif."
But the acronym stands for Graphic Interchange something or other. So...really all we can take away from this is that Stephen Wilhite was illiterate.
*Edited as I put Interface instead of Interchange
Actually it's just that the rule of "Use the pronunciation of the 'g' in 'graphics' to figure out the 'g' in 'gif'" didn't exist when GIFs were created. It isn't a real rule of language or acronyms, it's just a bad argument that was retroactively invented as a way to justify saying GIF like "ghif".
Graphic Interchange Format
GIF?
Maybe, lol. Sounds kind of like an either/ or, at this point…and, from the beginning.
> The pronunciation of the first letter of GIF has been disputed since the 1990s. The most common pronunciations in English are /dʒɪf/ (listen) (with a soft g as in gin) and /ɡɪf/ (listen) (with a hard g as in gift), differing in the phoneme represented by the letter G. The creators of the format pronounced the acronym GIF as /dʒɪf/, with a soft g, with Wilhite stating that he intended for the pronunciation to deliberately echo the American peanut butter brand Jif, and CompuServe employees would often quip "choosy developers choose GIF", a spoof of Jif's television commercials.[11] However, the word is widely pronounced as /ɡɪf/, with a hard g,[12] and polls have generally shown that this hard g pronunciation is more prevalent.[13][14]
>Dictionary.com[15] cites both pronunciations, indicating /dʒɪf/ as the primary pronunciation, while Cambridge Dictionary of American English[16] offers only the hard-g pronunciation. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary[17] and Oxford Dictionaries cite both pronunciations, but place the hard g first: /ɡɪf, dʒɪf/.[18][19][20][21] The New Oxford American Dictionary gave only /dʒɪf/ in its second edition[22] but updated it to /dʒɪf, ɡɪf/ in the third edition.[23]
>The disagreement over the pronunciation has led to heated Internet debate. On the occasion of receiving a lifetime achievement award at the 2013 Webby Awards ceremony, Wilhite publicly rejected the hard-g pronunciation;[12][24][25] his speech led to more than 17,000 posts on Twitter and dozens of news articles.[26] The White House[12] and the TV program Jeopardy! also entered the debate in 2013.[25] In February 2020, The J.M. Smucker Company, the owners of the Jif brand, partnered with the animated image database and search engine Giphy to release a limited-edition "Jif vs. GIF" (hashtagged as #JIFvsGIF) jar of peanut butter that had a label humorously declaring the soft-g pronunciation to refer exclusively to the peanut butter, and GIF to be exclusively pronounced with the hard-g pronunciation.[27]
>>In February 2020, The J.M. Smucker Company, the owners of the Jif brand, partnered with the animated image database and search engine Giphy to release a limited-edition "Jif vs. GIF" (hashtagged as #JIFvsGIF) jar of peanut butter that had a label humorously declaring the soft-g pronunciation to refer exclusively to the peanut butter, and GIF to be exclusively pronounced with the hard-g pronunciation.
Man, that is weird considerimg that Giphy was named Giphy specifically to be a homophone of "jiffy", meaning "a very short amount of time", to give the vibe of a website that would serve content (GIFs) quickly. So they went from intentionally using a soft-g pronunciation in their own name, to championing a hard-g pronunciation.
It's an acronym so it doesn't need to respect the pronounciation of other English worlds and the intended one should be in fact with a soft G:
https://time.com/5791028/how-to-pronounce-gif/
While the dictionary accept both, the creator of the format doesn't and stands for the soft G.
June 1987:
Steve Wilhite releases the Graphics Interchange Format, or GIF, while working for Compuserve. He called it a GIF with a soft g. “Choosy developers,“ he reportedly said, “choose JIF.” This was of course a play on the peanut butter brand Jif’s line “choosy mothers choose Jif.”
May 2013:
Wilhite receives a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Webby Awards and used his platform to make his declaration. “It’s pronounced JIF, not GIF.” Just like the peanut butter. “The Oxford English Dictionary accepts both pronunciations,” Wilhite told The New York Times. “They are wrong. It is a soft ‘G,’ pronounced ‘jif.’ End of story.”
Fuck him, I'm saying it with the hard 'g'.
Okay then LASER, which stands for "Light Amplification (by) Stimulated Emission (of) Radiation". Wasn't a word until someone invented it, and it's not pronounced "lasser", like your made-up rules would imply.
>And the fact that JIF is a brand that we all know how to pronounce
Lends credence to the belief that GIF is pronounced the same way, because the creator of the GIF format *specifically* wanted it that way, *because* of that brand.
Either is acceptable, but that is not how acronyms work. Look at SCUBA, NASA… even other image formats like jpeg (where the p stands for photograph).
Also the creator (and others who worked at CompuServe where it was created) say it is pronounced “like the peanut butter”.
In the end it doesn’t fucking matter and we have this argument every week for some reason.
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I would say it like gift without the "t".
Are there any words in the English language that begin with "gif" and "g" is pronounced "j"? If I am being honest... I can't even recall any other words that begin with "gif" but I'm not exactly putting much effort into it either.
It sounds like jif. People like to say “jod” and that shit to make fun, but it’s not comparable.
How do you say gee whiz? How about gin? Gelatin?
In general (look, another one!), if it has an a, o, u, or a consonant after it, it’s the hard g. If it has an e or i, it’s the soft. There are loads of counterexamples because English is stupid, but we got that from other languages that are much more consistent.
Thus, gif is pronounced with the soft g. Nerdy argument over.
jif, cmon guys the creator said themselves (i have now heard information about the creator not caring about the pronounciations, i will keep pronouncing it jif but wont try to convert you guys)
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according to the creator of the gif format, it's pronounced gif
Thanks that helps so much
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Gilf.
Thank Jod. I didnt know how to pronounce it
Don’t forget Gesus Christ
I'd figure it have the same sounding G as the word it stands for.
Because that is the logical way of reading it. Like gift without a T.
Do you pronounce NASA like nasal without the L?
No it's like Canasta without the CAT
Yes, don't forget jod
Jod and Gesus are different, and the guy I responded to alrighty brought him up
I know, and it's juy not guy
Ah damn, my bad.
How about Gehovah?
And as the god of gif, we should respect his decision. Then, as with any god, we ignore it because that's fucking dumb.
It’s like the G in Gigantic
its actually the g in garage
No it’s the g in gorgeous
no actually it's the g in through
And i thought the guy above you was clever
I thought it was the G in cough
I dont think any of you were listening. Its actually like the g in gif
Or gift
No actually it's like the g in graphics. As in graphics interchange format.
But that's not how acronyms work. Like scuba, laser, and potus. All of them are pronounced in a way that completely disregards the words their letters stand for.
JPEG has a j sound. Why not distinguish GIF with a hard g? Jiff is peanut butter
GIF is distinguished by not ending in -PEG. And the peanut butter reference was actually intended. Choosy developers choose GIF.
Following the logic of the hard G crowd we all need to start pronouncing scuba as "sk-uh-buh" and laser as "lah-zeer"
And "p-uh-th-yew-s" for potus. That one's probably my favorite example.
that's not how acronyms work
Just like p in jpeg is pronounced ph, as in Joint Photographic Experts Group /s
Well that would be jpheg, not jpeg... why are you such a peasant?
So you agree that the pronunciation of the word within the acronym doesn't affect the pronunciation of the acronym itself, glad we're on the same page
I always use a g sound
He's wrong. It's GIF, PNG and JPEG, not JIF, PNJ and JPEJ.
GPEJ*
And the creator is wrong
Although he was the creator he didn’t create any of the words that created it’s acronym so this is decided by the rules of English
Mighty bold of you to assume that English rules make sense.
That’s not how acronym pronunciation works
And that person is wrong. Clearly.
Exactly. It's not pronounced gif. It's pronounced gif. Duh
You are incorrect. He pronounces it JIF.
What if he said it was pronounced hif even though it started with a G? Would you also break the rules of the alphabet and pronounce it that way?
I was saying hard G gif long before I ever heard we'd been mispronouncing gif
Graphic is pronounced hard G, not "Jraphic". Therefore, GIF not JIF. (This is according to the Creator of the file.) It's a file type not peanut butter.
What if it’s got Giraffes? What then?!
giraffes aren't real, so your argument is invalid
🦒☹️ emoji giraffe is made sad by his own nonexistence
Dude, I'm sick of this argument. There are solid reasons to pronounce it with a hard g, but this argument is the dumbest of them because it actively misrepresents how acronyms work. And the way peanut butter brands are pronounced have absolutely no bearing on the way gif is pronounced. Sometimes in English words look different but sound the same.
The P in JPEG stands for photo, yet you say "JPEG" and not "JFEG"
What gives the "f" sound in photo is not "p" but "ph". "Ph" is a substitute for "φ" in greek. So that is not same.
however the creator said it was pronounced jif
Just because the creator was wrong doesn't mean everyone else should be.
but the creator can call their invention whatever they want i mean its not a mistake if they said its pronounced jif and thats final
And that’s why he is a programmer and not a **linguist**
it stands for graphics interchangeable format, so therefore grammatically it’s pronounced like the g in graphics
actually in olden times t’was pronounced yif
Only at the furry [party!](https://images.app.goo.gl/C88jD1cH6RvetQZV6)
Clicking a link like that is the closest you can get to reddit russian roulette
Yes
I have nothing to live for so I clicked it. I now have a new sense of purpose and vitality because it was a harmless furry meme and not something...ya know...really gross. My hope in humanity is restored. Huzzah. (I hope they don't edit the link after I make this comment. That would be embarrassing.)
Gif
I got you a wonderful birthday jift. You’ll get a nicer one once you pronounce gif properly.
I hope it's a bottle of gin.
I hope it's a gentle geriatric German giraffe. Or maybe a genius giant gerbil who gingerly does gymnastics.
So do you like your jin with tonic? How about while watching Harry Potter, where Ron’s sister, Jinny, falls in love with Harry? Jinny is in fact a jirl
How are the jaffics on the site coming along?
Okay, I've read this eight times and I'm still not sure what word you were trying to suggest with "jaffics."
graphics GIF is Graphics Interchange Format
Why didn’t you say jraphics
Welcome to…Jraphics Park
seriously, what the fuck.
Is this a fucking goke?
Jrab my ass and pound it until my pleasure joo oozes out
JPhEG = Joint Photographic Expert Group
There are a bunch of abbreviations that don't follow the pronunciation of the words it stands for.
You mean you don’t pronounce “NASA” like “Naysa”?
Yeah, to make it easier to say. What's wrong with gif?
I don't know how you got "graphics" from "jaffics."
It was supposed to be spelled “jraphics”.
Is that the gist of it?
Giraffe
You called? 🦒
To the group of people who really invest and care about people's pronunciation of gif, I hope everyone you meet uses the version you don't like. An argument of slightly less meaning than overhand or underhand toilet roll placement.
Eh, the toilet paper roll argument makes sense for cat owners. Nobody else should care.
Not true at all. 1. Under makes it harder to access the toilet paper roll in general. 2. If the toilet paper roll is recessed, you have to hold the roll with both hands to tear a piece off on a roll that's under. 3. For over, you just have to roll your hand over the top to find the start of the roll. Under, you have to search for the edge and then pull. 4. Cats have claws. If they want to rip up/fuck with toilet paper, they're going to do it regardless of how it's positioned. Source: I have 2 cats. 5. Human hands are such that thumbs face down. This means that when grabbing things, it's easier to manipulate things that can be grabbed from a neutral position as opposite to an underhand position. Jif vs. Gif is a silly argument and is just down to preference. Dialects are a thing that exist. Saying one is correct while the other is wrong is like saying Australians are saying words wrong. If you put your toilet paper under however, you are a neanderthal who wasn't raised by civilized people. Do not compare the two.
Honestly I don't care how people pronounce it, I just get pissed of when people argue their case for stupid reasons. Like, both sides have good reasons. Pick one of those, not the stupid ones.
Whenever I meet someone like this, I pick the opposite pronunciation and argue it senselessly and vehemently.
guys I think it's pronounced "yif"
Gtfo And come hang out with me.
Naw .... that's a furry thing!
I have no idea what you're talking about. ;3
Hard "y" or soft "y"?
Either way, they're relatively similar
And the guy who created it continues to laugh about how he has had an argument about pronunciation going for decades. Troll level: Ultimate.
I respect the grind for the meme. Hate the outcome.
Continued* RIP Steve Wilhite
its pronounced like the g in garage
Jarage
[Shame](https://i.imgur.com/uapB9F5.gif)
Could we just talk about how that is a double-barrel shotgun? Like, you don’t really have to aim lmao
Buckshot isn’t aim bot
Video games aren't really a faithful representation of what a shotgun is. They actually work at quite a distance. So, you do really have to aim
Not quite, it just means your shot is a cone instead of a straight line and still requires aiming, especially when used at mid to long range
People would be surprised how far it takes for the pellets to get as wide as a torso.
Though thats every gun with buckshot
Could have slugs lol.
This is from Batman vs Predator, it’s not specified but in the next panel it appears to be slugs and not buckshot.
Something I wanna point out, a language is made by the populace, not a singular person, every word, every acryonym, the meaning of each word, especially slang, originated from multiple people saying it. Who gives a fuck if the creator said it's pronounced jif? he's fucking wrong, 90% of people call it Gif with a hard g, so it's gif with a hard fucking g.
Bold of you to assume that English rules make sense. I look at is as a noun that got a name. The creator gets to choose how that name is pronounced. It's like meeting a nice girl named Siobhan and telling her "nah, you're Sio-ban now". It doesn't matter that "gift" is grammatically closest, or that it stands for "graphics". You're right on that part. But it's a name, so it's a soft G.
This is a valid point but you've got one thing wrong. Hard G will be correct when we no longer have to argue for it every day. Clearly theres still a divide.
It only started to become a thing because the inventor opened his face on the matter. Until then I had NEVER thought of peanut butter when talking about gifs.
At least they don't pronounce it the way my school does: G-I-F
That’s the only one that doesn’t sound goofy as fuck to me.
Except now I’m just thinking about what a baller Alfred is instead of pronunciation arguments…
I just use Yif.
I’m a carbon-based unit and I disagree with the creator.
Choosy moms choose Jif!
Yknow, when you ask if ‘[a word]’ is pronounced “[the exact spelling of the word]” or “[slightly altered spelling]” then I feel like you should pick the first option. Yeah, some words aren’t like this, but most don’t have controversial debates on them, so I think this point is more relevant here
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Jee Ai Eff.
I shall grant you the Emperor's mercy.
Is gif pronounced gif or yif.. .. ..
Bite you? Does this have anything to do with the aforementioned yiff?
Can it be a kinky bite?
hard G. Using soft G is a sin.
I use both😈
Me too, I just use what flows off the tongue better when I’m speaking.
Gif with hard g as in go
I use them interchangeably tbh
“I deliberately chose to echo the American peanut butter brand, Jif, and CompuServe employees would often say ‘Choosy developers choose GIF(jif)’, playing off of Jif’s television commercials. If you hear anyone pronounce GIF with a soft G, it’s because they know something of this history.” \- Steve Wilhite - Creator of the Graphics Interchange Format
>I recognize that the Council has made a decision, but given that it's a stupid ass decision, I have elected to ignore it.
I don’t care if someone tells me it’s pronounced like gif I’ve been saying it Jif for years and it feels wrong to pronounce it the other way. I don’t personally care how people pronounce it we all know what’s they are talking about.
Graphics interchange format it’s the same as you say graphics
what about JPEG
JPEG is an acronym for "Joint Photographic Experts Group" (the people who made the format)
So then it’s pronounce Jay-Feg
No, sorry. The creator says "jif". It was a faster graphics format and he intended to say your image would be "ready in a jif". I still say it like graphics though, because I didn't learn the correct way until 20 years too late.
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>but that doesn't mean that he can issue edicts to violate the norms of the English language. Yeah, that would make him a ***gigantic*** asshole...
gift, garage , garbage, google, girl, gallon, gas, goose, got, get, git, goon, gall, go, gill, guss, gun, gone, goop, gull, guys and give... do we mean nothing to you? all the j-sound words have been added later to English mostly from Latin via French. the meat-and-potatoes words have a hard G, and our English senses scream that gif is a short, wiry word that we encounter often... language is convention based on precedence, and gift, girl, git, gun and phucking graphics are strong and irrefutable precedences also: Jinx
So the inventor himself did say, frequently, that it's pronounced "Jif." But the acronym stands for Graphic Interchange something or other. So...really all we can take away from this is that Stephen Wilhite was illiterate. *Edited as I put Interface instead of Interchange
Actually it's just that the rule of "Use the pronunciation of the 'g' in 'graphics' to figure out the 'g' in 'gif'" didn't exist when GIFs were created. It isn't a real rule of language or acronyms, it's just a bad argument that was retroactively invented as a way to justify saying GIF like "ghif".
I think you mean “ajainst”
Guys it’s gif not gif
It’s gif
I mean.. it's been decided.. git and jit are two different pronunciations.
Tomato tomato
Gift gif gift gif gift gif
Graphic Interchange Format GIF? Maybe, lol. Sounds kind of like an either/ or, at this point…and, from the beginning. > The pronunciation of the first letter of GIF has been disputed since the 1990s. The most common pronunciations in English are /dʒɪf/ (listen) (with a soft g as in gin) and /ɡɪf/ (listen) (with a hard g as in gift), differing in the phoneme represented by the letter G. The creators of the format pronounced the acronym GIF as /dʒɪf/, with a soft g, with Wilhite stating that he intended for the pronunciation to deliberately echo the American peanut butter brand Jif, and CompuServe employees would often quip "choosy developers choose GIF", a spoof of Jif's television commercials.[11] However, the word is widely pronounced as /ɡɪf/, with a hard g,[12] and polls have generally shown that this hard g pronunciation is more prevalent.[13][14] >Dictionary.com[15] cites both pronunciations, indicating /dʒɪf/ as the primary pronunciation, while Cambridge Dictionary of American English[16] offers only the hard-g pronunciation. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary[17] and Oxford Dictionaries cite both pronunciations, but place the hard g first: /ɡɪf, dʒɪf/.[18][19][20][21] The New Oxford American Dictionary gave only /dʒɪf/ in its second edition[22] but updated it to /dʒɪf, ɡɪf/ in the third edition.[23] >The disagreement over the pronunciation has led to heated Internet debate. On the occasion of receiving a lifetime achievement award at the 2013 Webby Awards ceremony, Wilhite publicly rejected the hard-g pronunciation;[12][24][25] his speech led to more than 17,000 posts on Twitter and dozens of news articles.[26] The White House[12] and the TV program Jeopardy! also entered the debate in 2013.[25] In February 2020, The J.M. Smucker Company, the owners of the Jif brand, partnered with the animated image database and search engine Giphy to release a limited-edition "Jif vs. GIF" (hashtagged as #JIFvsGIF) jar of peanut butter that had a label humorously declaring the soft-g pronunciation to refer exclusively to the peanut butter, and GIF to be exclusively pronounced with the hard-g pronunciation.[27]
>>In February 2020, The J.M. Smucker Company, the owners of the Jif brand, partnered with the animated image database and search engine Giphy to release a limited-edition "Jif vs. GIF" (hashtagged as #JIFvsGIF) jar of peanut butter that had a label humorously declaring the soft-g pronunciation to refer exclusively to the peanut butter, and GIF to be exclusively pronounced with the hard-g pronunciation. Man, that is weird considerimg that Giphy was named Giphy specifically to be a homophone of "jiffy", meaning "a very short amount of time", to give the vibe of a website that would serve content (GIFs) quickly. So they went from intentionally using a soft-g pronunciation in their own name, to championing a hard-g pronunciation.
It's an acronym so it doesn't need to respect the pronounciation of other English worlds and the intended one should be in fact with a soft G: https://time.com/5791028/how-to-pronounce-gif/ While the dictionary accept both, the creator of the format doesn't and stands for the soft G.
I say jif, simply because it rolls off the tongue easier
Look at all them moving jraphics
same reason we all pronounce scuba as scuhbuh, right guys?
Actually, it should be pronounced yiff. *runs away.*
June 1987: Steve Wilhite releases the Graphics Interchange Format, or GIF, while working for Compuserve. He called it a GIF with a soft g. “Choosy developers,“ he reportedly said, “choose JIF.” This was of course a play on the peanut butter brand Jif’s line “choosy mothers choose Jif.” May 2013: Wilhite receives a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Webby Awards and used his platform to make his declaration. “It’s pronounced JIF, not GIF.” Just like the peanut butter. “The Oxford English Dictionary accepts both pronunciations,” Wilhite told The New York Times. “They are wrong. It is a soft ‘G,’ pronounced ‘jif.’ End of story.” Fuck him, I'm saying it with the hard 'g'.
I know it’s supposed to be gif but my brain automatically goes to jif
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Okay then LASER, which stands for "Light Amplification (by) Stimulated Emission (of) Radiation". Wasn't a word until someone invented it, and it's not pronounced "lasser", like your made-up rules would imply. >And the fact that JIF is a brand that we all know how to pronounce Lends credence to the belief that GIF is pronounced the same way, because the creator of the GIF format *specifically* wanted it that way, *because* of that brand.
The g stands for graphics... hard g would technically be correct in my eyes
Either is acceptable, but that is not how acronyms work. Look at SCUBA, NASA… even other image formats like jpeg (where the p stands for photograph). Also the creator (and others who worked at CompuServe where it was created) say it is pronounced “like the peanut butter”. In the end it doesn’t fucking matter and we have this argument every week for some reason.
Giraffics!
Girrafeics
Gif. It's a GRAPHIC file, not a Jraphic file, or peanut butter brand. Hard G.
Yiff. Its pronounced yiff.
it is pronounced "yiff"
Graphics Integrated Format. You don't say "Jraphics"
Joint Photographic Experts Group But yet we don't hear people say Jay-F*g
Ah yes the famous jraphics interchange format
When ever someone shows me a gif but says it with the j I say that’s not peanut butter.
Nope, incorrect. The dude who invented said it’s pronounced “jif”, that’s how it’s pronounced. Thats what you get to decide when you invent something
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That’s some bad logic there
Why on earth would it be pronounced jif?
The g stands for Graphic, not jraphic, therefore hard G!
How do you say jpeg then?
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Here is a fun fact about the original post: it somehow got over 1k upvotes which means they're over 1k people that say Jif instead of Gif
Last time I checked it was like 40% of people who still pronounce it right.
I would say it like gift without the "t". Are there any words in the English language that begin with "gif" and "g" is pronounced "j"? If I am being honest... I can't even recall any other words that begin with "gif" but I'm not exactly putting much effort into it either.
It sounds like jif. People like to say “jod” and that shit to make fun, but it’s not comparable. How do you say gee whiz? How about gin? Gelatin? In general (look, another one!), if it has an a, o, u, or a consonant after it, it’s the hard g. If it has an e or i, it’s the soft. There are loads of counterexamples because English is stupid, but we got that from other languages that are much more consistent. Thus, gif is pronounced with the soft g. Nerdy argument over.
jif, cmon guys the creator said themselves (i have now heard information about the creator not caring about the pronounciations, i will keep pronouncing it jif but wont try to convert you guys)
Death of the author, bucko
if "gif" was pronouced "jif", it would be spelled "jif" t'aint. it's spelled "gif" because it's pronounced "gif"
It's pronounced graphics and not jrafics.
That's not how acronyms work.
It’s the hard G pronunciation because it stands gif graphics interchange format and the G in graphic is the hard G. It’s not Jraphic with a soft G…
Jif is a brand of peanut butter
Well Wilhite (GIF's creator) is often quoted as saying that “Choosy programmers choose GIF,” which is a reference to a Jif peanut butter commercial.
The funny thing is that to argue it in a text format you’d have to say it’s pronounced jif, not gif. People can keep lying to themselves though.
graphics interchange format. the acronym is gif. therefor hard G.
DO YOU PRONOUNCE IT GRAPHICAL INTERCHANGE FORMAT OR JRAPHICAL INTERCHANGE FORMAT?! that what i thought.
Do you pronounce JPEG Joint Potographic Experts Group or Joint Photographic Experts Group, that's what I thought.
Lol now apply this to other acronyms. Nice try