How do you pronounce .GIF?

[Darklord Rooke]

It's interesting to see that, while gif being pronounced jif is a 100% irrefutable fact, the rule of thumb for most people is to still say gif.

I wonder what caused this.

[Fred the Barber]

What are you trying to say here, Rooke. Do you mean you don't pronounce "graphic" just like the word "giraffe", but with a k at the end?

[Nosebleed]

Hard G Masterrace. Never submit

I've always heard it pronounced "giff", and I will always think of it that way, no matter how many times I'm told otherwise. Not really me being stubborn, it's just ingrained into my mind as "giff". Don't really get why people care if someone pronounces it differently, not like it really matters.

[Eclipsed]

But hard G rhymes with D and we all know ppl want the D

I dont even know what I just said

[Flutterz]

[Kosakyun]

Whelp.

I always pronounced it letter by letter.

Guess I'm a casual.

[OriginalRen]

I say GIF. Why do I say GIF? Because acronyms in English (or any language for that matter) should be pronounced with the same phoneme their actual words represent.

 

You say "graphics interchange format," not "japhics interchange format."

 

End of story. I'm sorry Steve Wilhite is a moron who doesn't know how to speak properly. I'm sorry he decides to use a Latin/Italian pronunciation but make the acronym itself have an English meaning.

[Nosebleed]

I'll start saying JFEG instead of JPEG then. Jay-feg master race

[Lewycool]

Please...... It's Gif

[ERO!]

I'll start saying JFEG instead of JPEG then. Jay-feg master race

[Nosebleed]

wouldn't it make more sense to say JFEJ?

or GFEJ

[Sakimichi]

I say GIF. Why do I say GIF? Because acronyms in English (or any language for that matter) should be pronounced with the same phonics their actual words represent.

 

You say "graphics interchange format," not "japhics interchange format."

 

End of story. I'm sorry Steve Wilhite is a moron who doesn't know how to speak properly. I'm sorry he decides to use a Latin/Italian pronunciation but make the acronym itself have an English meaning.

[OriginalRen]

According to Ren's explanation it'd be JFEG since it stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group

[Abyssal Monkey]

Wow I'm being selective...after realizing G is pronounced as "Gee" but used as "Guh".

[Flutterz]

Can I just point out we're arguing about how what is basically a made-up word is pronounced in a language which gives no fucks about pronunciation rules?

[OriginalRen]

Can I just point out we're arguing about how what is basically a made-up word is pronounced in a language which gives no fucks about pronunciation rules?

[Flutterz]

This is the internet. I must be right. Go away.

[Abyssal Monkey]

On a similar topic, I sound out pdf, because it makes me laugh at how silly of a format I think it is. I.E.

 

"I use PDF's for sending information at work"

"You use pdffff hahahahahahahaha"

[Sakimichi]

Except thats what the letter J is for... G = Jee

 

There are only three letters that I can think of that aren't phonologically different than the rest of the alphabet, but instead are a compound of them.

 

C = s or k

Q(u) = k(w)

X = ks

 

huh, apparently english has issues with the K sound...

I actually meant Gee = Jee, sorry about the mix up. xD

Pronounced like Geeze so I typed Gee without actually thinking of using J.

But then again J "dzay" in Jelly is "dzeh"..... but I wont pry any further..it's actually ridiculous to fight for this XD

[Snowtsuku]

I just spell it out.

[Fred the Barber]

You guys can invent your own graphic format, name it what you want, and then pronounce the name however you want. And once that happens, I'll even pronounce it the same way! Go ahead and get on that.

 

In the meantime, I'll just be over here, calling GIFs "jiffs", just like the guy who invented GIF and pronounces it "jif".

[Cofee]

I follow the hard g cult

[Abyssal Monkey]

Pointless counter argument to the jif fans.  If you call it a jif, then whats left for the actual JIF File Extension?

 

/thread : case closed.

[Yeah Way]

"Get" is one of the most common words out there. It's also 100% Germanic in origin, the opposite of what could be described as a loanword. The idea of "G" having 2 pronunciations is actually a "loan" from Romance languages.

 

Anyway, when it comes to English, a rule without exceptions is in itself exceptional. "Gif" just looks like /'gɪf/ to me. Both pronunciations are 100% valid. The guy who made .Gifs isn't a linguist; and, even if he were, that doesn't mean his pronunciation should be given preferrence. 'Authorities' rarely ever prevent the masses from going with what they feel sounds right.

[zoom909]

Because it's an acronym, and not a word, it doesn't matter how it's pronounced.  You can simply say each letter individually.

 

Judging from people I meet every day, a better use of their time would be learning to pronounce English words correctly, such as:

 

pastoral

comparable

mischievous

volatile

respite

amalgam

 

and so forth...