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It's gif, not gif!
Smh
It's not Data, the correct pronunciation is Data.
Gif as in gift. Anything else is nonsense!
Ever seen a geriatric geologist named George at the gym? How about a giant ginger giraffe drunk on gin. What about a genderless genealogist cutting generic gems?
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Jift?
Jirl?
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One is my name, the other is not.
The one on the left is pronounced GIF and the one on the right is pronounced GIF.
Actually, I'm pretty sure you have them flipped
Graphics Interchange Format. Hard G.
I use a hard G but this is a bad argument. I'll just link to this great list of counterexamples:
Do you pronounce origin like the state?
Do you you also say "nay-say" when reading NASA, lol, that logic is flawed.
I'd like to remind everyone that the rules for words amd pronunciation were documented AFTER most words, which is why it's so inconsistent and arbitrary
The acronym for NASA uses the same sounds as the words that make the acronym. Same as GIF so I'm not sure what your point is. Mine is that GIF stands for graphics interchange format and graphics starts with a hard g therefore GIF should start with a hard g.
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ITS GIF, FIGHT ME
Uhm achtckyally it's GIF
Always pronounce it "GIF."
Never "JIF."
Only Lore does that.
Way to start another flame war Xusontha! Or is it Zusontha?
I'll never tell
...It's secretly a Greek letter chi, isn't it?
Choosy moms choose Gif.
Choosy websites choose gif.
(And if anyone gets that reference I'll be thrilled.)
It really hits every spot on the spectrum from minion to stripper dances lol
It all depends if you pronounce it
Graphics interchange format
Or
Jraphics interchange format
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What the hell is a gigawatt?
Pronounced "jijawatt":
It's Jrrrreat!
I pronounce it like gin but I don't really care how someone else pronounces it.
Lore: It's pronounced GIF... because of the implication.
I don't care as long as you don't say Jetpack to JPG like my old collegue used to say.
Whut
That's an actual crime
Do you pronounce origin like the state?
They're both GIF, and they're both pronounced correctly, because there is only one way to pronounce it, and there is no other way.
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