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How do y'all say GIF?

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Every day we stray further from jod
- "It's pronounced greg..."
Yiff

wait no
how do you pronounce God, goo, grey, great, good, gun, gumption, goofy

plus jif is peanut butter
- While I agree with you on how it should be pronounced, not a good argument. Giraffe.
  
  Gift without the t, I always say
  
  Gift is closer to gif than giraffe....
  
  Geordie Laforge thumbs up
  
  Gin Gist Giraffe Gino Gif Gimp Git Gift
  
  English is crazy so do what you want.
- Giant, geode, gel, george, gerbil. Just sayin'.
  
  *Gust sayin'.
  
  same as Graphical.
  
  And McAfee!
  
  Sorry, I meant giraffe.
- I agree with you but I have a simpler argument, which is the mere fact that this exists: https://fileinfo.com/extension/jif
  
  WOAH. Didn't know about this. Maybe I can finally convince my mom... doubt.
- u choose all these unrelated words when theres GIFt
- Also, if jizz is not spelled as gizz, so why would jif spelled as gif?
- SCUBA
  
  I’m seeing vowel consonant vowel, that’s a long U in the new word regardless to what it stands for in the acronym.
Jraphics Interchange Format
- Joint Fotographic Expert Group
  
  Joint Fotographic Expert Group
  
  I think what you meant to send is “Joint Potographic Expert Group” with the H removed, instead of the Ph swapped for F
- Giraffeics Interchange Format
If you pronounce it jif, you are 100% wrong no matter who you are.
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Yiff obviously
Yiff
- No.
- This would be the correct Swedish pronunciation if it followed normal rules, as i is a soft vowel.
gif. With a hard g, because there is also .jiff and you could not distinguish otherwise.
- The fact that this conversation exists is proof that the word is intuitively pronounced with a hard G.
  
  The only reason to pronounce it like a J if because the creator liked it - and the reason he liked it was literally because of the (copyright-infringing) similarity to the peanut butter.
  
  He made a huge contribution to the Internet by creating the format, and he deserves it gratitude. Mispronouncing gif is not the best approach to that.
  
  You realize there are other words people pronounce incorrectly just because they’ve only ever read it right?
  
  I had literally never heard a single person pronounce it with a hard G, through middle school and high school graphic design classes, through an entire web development degree, until 2015 when HelloGeneric made that stupid video.
  
  If gif is the proper noun for the format, it's pronounced as the creator says.
- I make the distinction simply by talking about gifs
Yiff obv
- 👑
I don't think there's any real argument here. So I turned this into a meme.
- this is the way
- Make it two goofy heads and it'd be perfection
Like a sane person. Why do you ask?
I hate this argument so I'm going tip start pronouncing it like the Dutch G or the Spanish J and you won't be able to tell which it is because I speak neither language.
It's not jraphics interchange format
- neither do divers use "self contained OOnderwater breathing apparatus", usually written as SCUBA.
  
  Nor do we say jPHeg files.
  
  Nor "north AYYtlantic treaty OHHrganization"
  
  or "light AYYmplification by stimulated emnssion of radiation"
  
  Get the fuck out of here with your logic! We're not here to be right, we're here to win!
- Except it used to be genie interchange format, or something along those lines. (It is still gif though I don't care what it stood for jif is dumb)
- Right, because that totally applies to all other acronyms.
Gif as in Gift
- Not gif like gel?
  
  Nope, not even close. It's followed by an E.
- So a “J” sound like in gift?
New one I just became aware of:

How does everyone say SQL?
- I go back and forth between "Ess Cue Ell", "Sequel", and "You Fucking Whore"
  
  This is what we do at work.
  
  This one fits me best
- My dad has used SQL forever and calls it "Sequel."
- It's an initialisation, not an acronym, so it's only:
  
  Ess-queue-ell.
  
  Surely anything else is madness
  
  Your logic is circular
  
  And yet everyone I know who has used it pre-2010s ish says 'sequel'
- Depends on the context
  
  MySQL: my es que el
  
  SQL Server: sequel Server
  
  PostgreSQL: Postgress
  
  or by itself just es que el
  
  Really, my ess cue ell? I say mysequel 100% of the time. But I'm trying to get into the Primagen's My Squeal pronunciation
- Ess-Cue-Elle
- I call it sequel but I've heard squirrel and squeal.
- I like to call it "Squeal" sometimes, but usually I call it "Sequel".
- Squirrel.
- Ess Queue Ell. I didn't hear the sequel pronunciation until I was well in my thirties and even then only by people older than me. Then I started working with it myself and heard people younger than me pronouncing it sequel, so now I have no idea. I still hear Ess Queue Ell from the vast majority though.
This stupid fucking argument is proof humans will never achieve world peace
- So wealthy people exploit vulnerable people and coordinate to fill the airwaves with anti-human propaganda because some people mistakenly use a J sound?
Jpeg should be pronounced gaypeg whenever someone else chooses to pronounce gif as jif. Change my mind.
- You mean jayfeg?
I pronounce it 'yiff'.
With a hard "guh" sound, because that's what I grew up with.
- JIF is peanut butter
  
  GIF is Graphic Interchange Format
  
  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.
Or you can pronounce it "heef" as in Spanish, just saying
Gif. Obviously.
G like the g in beige, with a long I. "Zhaif"
"Choosy developers choose gif."
Imagine talking in a language where people cant decide how words are pronounced
It's pronounced GIF, duh.
Nobody mentions the people who pronounce it G-I-F
- In Swedish we don't really say Jay-pegg, because it doesn't flow with the rest of the language. Due to it coming at a time when file extensions were limited to three characters on Windows, most people I know pronounce it JPG (Yee-pear-gear).
- This right here, the only one that everyone can hate equally
Oh, so that's what we're going to do today, we're gonna fight?
I just read it as it appears, phonetically, like any other word. Gif.
xif, to be inclusive
jee ayy eff
- GAF?
  
  I think they're trying to spell their name: Geoff. They're still learning, give it time.
Like the g in garage
Geef
tiff
Djeef like chief
With a J but rhyming it with life
- Yes, officer, this comment right here.
heff
Those who say it with a hard G must also say JFEG using the same logic. I'm fine with someone saying it either way, it's been around so long that I think the choices tend to be regional (aka BBS era).
- How would you pronounce JFEG other than J-Feg
  
  The file format is JPEG (or JPG). Its commonly pronounced "jay-peg", but if we demand that GIF is a hard-G because of "Graphics", then we must abide JPEG being pronounced "jay-feg" or "jay-pheg" because of "Photographic".
gee aii f
Gif As in graphical which it's short for.
Giffy pop popcorn.
gee ayy eff
No! Not biting, just say it hiwever you like and fuck off :p
Jif
Like Girlfriend
If you really want to make everyone mad, it's not "gif" or "jif" it's "jyfe"
Jäif for all my PBS idea channel followers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmqy-Sp0txY
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Considering gif is just an acronym there isn’t a right or wrong way to pronounce it as technically it isn’t a word, and therefore there is no “official” way to say it.
Gife

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