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How do y'all say GIF? (lemmy.ml)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

JIF is peanut butter

GIF is Graphic Interchange Format

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

The creator of the Gradual Interface Forget wanted people to pronounce it with a J literally because he wanted it to use the name recognition of the peanut butter - and I don't exactly care about their profits or about copyright, but it's a bad reason.