I will face Jod and walk backward into hell before I say “jiff”
Clearly you’re not a choosy mom.
Plebe moms choose ghif.
oh that’s easy, it’s “dot gif”
Jraphic interface format really sounds right /s
Let me just get my Self Contained Oonderwater Breathing Uhpparatus ready /s
Right, because Gs are never pronounced with a “J” sound, and acronyms are never pronounced differently than their full terms. Sound logic there; well done. Never mind any of these:
NASA- National Aeronautics Space Uhdministration
NATO- North Ayy-tlantic Treaty Organization
LASER- Light Ayy-mplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
SCUBA- Self Contained Oonderwater Breathing Uhpparatus
FOMO- Fear ohhf missing ohht
ASAP- Ayys soon ayys possible
POC- People ohhf solor
PIN- Personal id-entification number
BOGO- Buy ohhn get ohhn
POTUS- President ohhf the Uhhnited States
YOLO- You only live ohhnce
AWOL- Ayy-bsent without awfficial leave
ICE- Eyemmigration and Sustoms Enforcement
DARE- Drug Ayybuse Resistance Education
NASA - National Ah-ronautics and Space Uh-dministration
LASER - Light Ay-mplification by Ztimulated Eh-mission of Radiation
ICE - Eye-mmigration and Sustoms -nforcement (E is silent)
DARE - Drug Ay-buse Resistance -ducation (ditto)
National Aeronautics and Space Uhdministration /s
I think it’s because words that end with sa, have that uh sound. Like Medusa, salsa, mesa, mimosa
Right, in other words, acronym pronunciation has nothing to do with how the letters that compose it are pronounced in their respective words.
Light aimplification by ztimulated emission of radiation just has a nice ring to it /s
I believe that’s “uhmission”
Why do people have to pronounced it in any way? Why not say G-I-F? I’ve been saying it like that since before I knew about the huge debate💀
Because that’s 3 syllables instead of 1. Ain’t nobody got time for that!
Cuz the devs explicitly named it after the peanut butter and even gave it a catchphrase to make sure you pronounced it correctly. It was a marketing campaign. “Choosy developers choose gif”.
How do you pronounce JIF, then? (That’s the JPEG Interchange Format.)
That’s JPEG File Interchange Format.
Right there in the first paragraph, it says
The base specifications for a JPEG container format are defined in Annex B of the JPEG standard, known as JPEG Interchange Format (JIF).
It’s a real shame (for them) they don’t dictate how the English language works
Neither do you?
 There’s no politics involved at all! One is right and one is wrong. It’s easy :)
We all know it’s pronounced “gif”.
Exactly!
Yeah with the g like in garage.
Or the g in gigantic.
“The correct way, of course.”
ʒaɪf
rhymes with “knife”
I was devastated to learn the creators intended it to be pronounced “jif” like the peanut butter brand
Yeah, because it’s a jraphical interface format.
So do you say j-feg? Because the p stands for photographic
One of the common nonsensical arguments heard. What’s the next one?
Giraffical
Me too. I feel like no one pronounced it jif before they said that, and now we have to have an eternal debate over it
That’s literally how every programmer pronounced it before it became an Internet sensation. It had a marketing campaign to “sell” the format because that’s how new standards were created initially. They explicitly chose to name it after the peanut butter because it allowed them to give it a catchy phrase to sell it even better “choosy developers choose gif”.
One of the few times I don’t care what the creator says, he was wrong.
And yet your mind knows it’s not possible for him to be wrong since he named it.
dot G-I-F
It’s actually pronounced yif
Whatever causes the asker to have the biggest breakdown at the time!
“4G-LTE”? Well that’s ‘Forgull’ty’
Gif, the jift that keeps on jivving.
The ancient Arcadians actually pronounced it .flif
Pronounced it as a soft g in my head the first time I read it, and years later the creator said it was meant to be a soft g, so I feel validated.
When you create an image format, name it whatever you want and if it’s any good and I use it, I’ll call it what you want
Some say gif, others say gif. The people saying gif are correct.
Ya damn giraffe-loving gifter
