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How do y'all say GIF? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] unnecessarygoat 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Nobody mentions the people who pronounce it G-I-F

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

This right here, the only one that everyone can hate equally

[–] aulin 1 points 11 months ago

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).