"GIF" or "JIF"

[Mixolydian]

Choosy muthas choose GIF.

 

[pandemonium]

That's a pretty good divide. I should've added a 3rd option for "fuzzychalkleopard".

 

[LumbergTech]

Jif..the creator of it said so......
http://www.olsenhome.com/gif/

 

[colonelciller]

The sound of a hard g (which often precedes the non-front vowels a, o, u) is usually [ɡ] (as in go) while the sound of a soft g (typically before i, e, y) depending on language, may be a fricative or affricate. In English, the sound of soft g is /dʒ/ (as in George).



TL;DR if you think its pronounced "gif" not "jif" you need to go back and slap your 10th grade english teacher.

😱slam dunk

that's one of the most impressive /thread moments i've ever witnessed

 

[Broheim]

😱slam dunk

that's one of the most impressive /thread moments i've ever witnessed

it's copypasta from wikipedia D:

 

[Lonyo]

😱slam dunk

that's one of the most impressive /thread moments i've ever witnessed

Slam dunk because there are no exceptions to such rules, like, who knows... gift?

 

[mnewsham]

Slam dunk because there are no exceptions to such rules, like, who knows... gift?

I cited the rules for the exceptions too, I don't understand how you can use the justification of "there are exceptions like "gift" which is similar".... well great, but the creator of the thing calls it "jiff" the correct modern English language rules also dictate it be "jiff" and yet still it MUST be an "exception"?

 

[Murloc]

I say JIF because in italian GIF is read that way, if an i or a e follows the g is always soft, it would have to be written ghif to make people who don't know English pronounce it correctly. As a kid I also pronounced file uncorrectly (feel-eh), but that was wrong so I corrected it, but JIF stuck because everyone says it like that.

Logic tells me it should be pronounced GIF though since the g in graphics is hard and it's an acronym but habits are habits.
Also with language evolution an acronym might stop being an acronym and become a word on its own right with the usual english spelling inconsistence.

I'm pretty sure germans all say GIF instead.

 

[stormkroe]

I've honestly always said GIF because JIF sounded too much like noobs/movie directors that didn't know anything about computers trying to sound technical. As in 'jiggabyte' or 'jiggawatt'. I know it's a small sample.size, but honestly to this day the only people I hear say JIF are A+ certs who think they've accomplished something and can fix ANY computer (re-install windows).

 

[JackBurton]

I've honestly always said GIF because JIF sounded too much like noobs/movie directors that didn't know anything about computers trying to sound technical. As in 'jiggabyte' or 'jiggawatt'. I know it's a small sample.size, but honestly to this day the only people I hear say JIF are A+ certs who think they've accomplished something and can fix ANY computer (re-install windows).

Yet they're the ones pronouncing it correctly.

 

[Balt]

JIF (ie, the correct way)

 

[JujuFish]

I've honestly always said GIF because JIF sounded too much like noobs/movie directors that didn't know anything about computers trying to sound technical. As in 'jiggabyte' or 'jiggawatt'.

Funny, because jigga has been an acceptable pronunciation of 'giga-' for half a century.

 

[M0RPH]

Always has been JIF for me. Just sounds better.