Every day we stray further from jod
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how do you pronounce God, goo, grey, great, good, gun, gumption, goofy
plus jif is peanut butter
While I agree with you on how it should be pronounced, not a good argument. Giraffe.
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u choose all these unrelated words when theres GIFt
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gif. With a hard g, because there is also .jiff and you could not distinguish otherwise.
The fact that this conversation exists is proof that the word is intuitively pronounced with a hard G.
The only reason to pronounce it like a J if because the creator liked it - and the reason he liked it was literally because of the (copyright-infringing) similarity to the peanut butter.
He made a huge contribution to the Internet by creating the format, and he deserves it gratitude. Mispronouncing gif is not the best approach to that.
You realize there are other words people pronounce incorrectly just because they’ve only ever read it right?
Pronunciation of words is decided by consensus - and while of course people mispronounce things, what that means is, they pronounce it differently from the accepted cultural norm.
We don't get all in a knot because Americans prove things differently from British people - even though they originally set the rules for English. And we don't pronounce things the way we do because George Washington (being analogous to wilhite (or whatever his name was)) told us to; we pronounce things as we do because of cultural consensus.
Wilhite's intention was literally to use the name recognition of the peanut butter to further his own success - which, like, who cares - but the simple fact that he made that decision (and to be clear, regardless of our opinion on copyright, is a bad way to make the decision) strongly implies that he was aware that his pronunciation was unnatural.
The fact that this conversation even comes up is proof that culturally we reject wilhite's pronunciation. It's a lost battle - the only reason I get involved in these threads is because I have a hard time watching the same 3 talking points (on both sides) and the same 3 rebuttals - all of which attempt seem to use facts and logic to determine "correct" pronunciation - when the truth is, the pronunciation has already been decided, and soft-G pronounces deserve to understand it.
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Yiff obviously
I don't think there's any real argument here. So I turned this into a meme. 
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Like a sane person. Why do you ask?
I hate this argument so I'm going tip start pronouncing it like the Dutch G or the Spanish J and you won't be able to tell which it is because I speak neither language.
It's not jraphics interchange format
neither do divers use "self contained OOnderwater breathing apparatus", usually written as SCUBA.
Nor do we say jPHeg files.
Nor "north AYYtlantic treaty OHHrganization"
or "light AYYmplification by stimulated emnssion of radiation"
Get the fuck out of here with your logic! We're not here to be right, we're here to win!
Except it used to be genie interchange format, or something along those lines. (It is still gif though I don't care what it stood for jif is dumb)
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Gif as in Gift
Not gif like gel?
Nope, not even close. It's followed by an E.
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Jpeg should be pronounced gaypeg whenever someone else chooses to pronounce gif as jif. Change my mind.
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With a hard "guh" sound, because that's what I grew up with.
heef, spanish style
Death to America
I pronounce it 'yiff'.
This stupid fucking argument is proof humans will never achieve world peace
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Gif. Obviously.
Imagine talking in a language where people cant decide how words are pronounced
Or you can pronounce it "heef" as in Spanish, just saying
"Choosy developers choose gif."
Oh, so that's what we're going to do today, we're gonna fight?
xif, to be inclusive
G like the g in beige, with a long I. "Zhaif"
pretty sure we have solid confirmation its pronounced yiff
I just read it as it appears, phonetically, like any other word. Gif.
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Those who say it with a hard G must also say JFEG using the same logic. I'm fine with someone saying it either way, it's been around so long that I think the choices tend to be regional (aka BBS era).
How would you pronounce JFEG other than J-Feg
The file format is JPEG (or JPG). Its commonly pronounced "jay-peg", but if we demand that GIF is a hard-G because of "Graphics", then we must abide JPEG being pronounced "jay-feg" or "jay-pheg" because of "Photographic".
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