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If it were supposed to be pronounced "jif" it would have been spelled that way.
The creator of the format is documented as having confirmed the pronunciation is "jif", but I don't care. Once he created it and put it into the world, he relinquished his control.
I honestly believe he was just trolling when he said that and he probably giggles to himself everytime someone says (shudder) 'jif'. It's a hard G from graphics so I don't know how else is could be reasonably pronounced.
This is why literary analysis created death of the author.
This is a jem of a response, but by jeneralizing pronunciations of acronyms only by the way they are spelt, you are opening a jigantic can of worms on etymology and linguistics.
The jist of it is that English is a weird language, jenerally descriptive, and there can be many correct answers to the same pronunciation problem.
As for me? I'm a choosy developer, and I choose jif.
I read that as Jig-antic. I would have to turn it into jygantik for it to sound the same.
Laser is an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation, and yet we all pronounce it βlay-Zerβ not βlay-Serβ
The A in amplification and E in emission are pronounced differently too, so the "correct" pronunciation would be "lah-seer".
So how do you pronounce giraffe?
GIF is an acronym. Giraffe is not. The Giraffe response has been debunked for decades.
Graphical is a hard G.
Debunked? Its a counterpoint to the fact that it's pronounced that way because it's spelled with a g. If that poor argument wasn't used, the giraffe one wouldn't have to come up. It's not evidence of anything other than that letters can be pronounced in more than one way.
For the graphical thing, imagine pronouncing NASA wrong because of the way aeronautical is pronounce. Or underwater in scuba. World in WHO? The I in AIDS isn't pronounced anything like immunodeficiency.
Your argument doesn't work either.
Thank you for providing me all new ways to pronounce things in horribly cursed ways, magic internet man.
Also "laser" as lah-seer
The argument holds up.
It's a gift, not a jift.
Yeah and it's giraffe, not jiraffe. See how that gets us nowhere?
Jood gob indeed (just kidding, no malice intended)
How do you pronounce github? GIMP? GNU? GPU? Javascript?
Oh Geremy, it's time to jo to the jocery store! We need some jrape gelly.
Geoff is a gentle German giant with ginger hair. He's also a germaphobe, though generally he's still a genuine gentleman. You get the gist.
Wait they're supposed to be pronounced with J? Except JS obviously I pronounced them all with G
If thereβs ever a Giraffe Interchange Format, Iβll pronounce it the same as giraffe. And unlike some people, Iβll be able to tell the two apart.
In the meantime, there is a Joint Photographics Experts Group. I love me some deep fried jfegs!
How do you pronounce gift?
Yes, but "GIF" is not etymologically Germanic. π
With the other pronunciation. Some letters have more than one. Your statement is nonsense lol
How do you pronounce ghoti?
And clearly based on the intense response you win the controversial statement award