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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not aware of any word that changes pronunciation of the first letter by adding a letter at the end. The closest thing we have to GIF is "gift", being "gif" with an extra "t" at the end. By that logic GIF should be pronounced like "gift" without the "t".

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yep, that's exactly how it should be pronounced.

I'm still kinda confused with BTRFS pronounced as "butter fs"... I mean, what kind of butter is it πŸ€”.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been fighting this war for OP's side since 1987. Come at me, I'm on Tijer Guice and shit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You got any ghin to go with that juice?

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

I try to say jif because of the whole "that's how the inventor says it" thing, but In my mind I always think "God this is dumb as shit"

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This always attracts pedants whining "the creator said to pronounce it like jif!" and it's like, OK, A) That's an appeal to authority, one of the best known logical fallacies B) The creator of Mother's Day spent over 30 years trying to get people to stop celebrating it, but too bad, I'm still gonna wish my Mom a happy Mother's Day, you know?

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Eh it’s 50-50 where I’m from, even in the tech community. I’ve always use the j sound when I say it, cause I used to think it was short for giraffe

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There already a word in the English language which is almost the same : gift. So i prononce it like gift without the t.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tbh, I used to pronounce it 'JIF' (because in my native language, 'gi' is always a soft 'g', and I usually speak that), but now that I think about it in English, a hard G makes more sense.

In Romanian I also pronounce gigabytes as jigabytes :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

the creator of gif pronounces it as jif

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I bet the inventor didn't have a jirlfriend.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well, he's probably better at programming, than language then ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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