Once and for all, its pronounced "gif", let this end all the back and forth.
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Jraphics Interchange Format
The optimal format for interchanging 256-colour palletised animated images of giraffes.
joint pottographics interchange group
Jay-fog is going to be my new
That said itβs still gif (not jiff).
i like how my intentionally shitty spelling of "photographic" has made my unintentional use of the word "interchange" instead of "exchange" fly under the radar.
jfig.
MySQL would love this kind of recognition, instead it just gets turned into "My"SQL.
Technically the original JPEG container format is "JIF", throwing another wildcard into the mix.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_File_Interchange_Format
The base specifications for a JPEG container format are defined in Annex B of the JPEG standard, known as JPEG Interchange Format (JIF).
The pronunciation of an anagram's component words has no bearing on the anagram's pronunciation.
I think that question is best posed to the Joint Photographic Experts Group, better known as "jay-fegg".
(For the record, I'm in camp "G as in Graphic", but it's still true that an acronym's source words don't dictate the pronunciation.)
Right, in cases where an acronym is pronounced as word it generally follows the normal convention of the letters that form the word. Which would STILL result in the same pronunciation as "g" in graphics or gun.
Of course accepted convention and tradition can also matter. If a word is generally pronounced a certain way then that is how its pronounced. Which of course STILL gives us the soft G.
Right, in cases where an acronym is pronounced as word it generally follows the normal convention of the letters that form the word.
Meanwhile, the GNU Project calls itself "guh-nu" and then chooses a gnu ("nu") as its mascot.
Which would STILL result in the same pronunciation as "g" in
graphicsgiraffe orgungin.
FTFY
They dont absolutely define it, but they certainly contribute. Assuming one or the other as sole definer seems silly.
Except they don't. The vast majority of acronyms have at least one letter that's pronounced differently than in the word it's representing. Any correlation is purely coincidental.
So occasionally one letter doesnt fit with the rest... doesnt that mean that the rule is not absolute and my statement is correct? That often the originating phrase contributes and often it does not, and that neither is exclusive to the other?
NASA and LASER would like a word.
wait hang on... nasa works. laser is more iffy.
If you're pronouncing NASA and Aeronautics the same way you're definitely saying one of them wrong.
it's a very subtle difference, if you don't count the /Γ¦/ diphthong. i think i could get away with it.
Congratulations on proving it's pronounces /jiff/
Oh! My client doesn't animate it if I tap for full image, so I didn't realize it was a jif.
Every day we stray further from Jod.
There exists .jif files and .gif files. Thatβs pretty much my entire argument on the subject. If you say βjifβ I will assume you mean a .jif.
Jesse Faden would manage it just fine.
He loved nothing more than jivving jifts to his wife and family at Christmas.
Afterward he would sip a gin and tonic while reading about giant giraffes. Absolutely gigantic. Ginormous even. It would always send him into a fit of raging laughter.
Charging.
Not one of those has F or V as the third letter. Name an English word that starts "gif-" or "giv-" where the g is soft. I'll wait.
I'd like you to point at the rule that's says G MUST be a hard consonant if F comes after I. You can just say you prefer it for arbitrary reasons instead of trying to justify it with nonsense, especially with 99% evidence for that claim would be different forms of the word "gift". :P
The point is that there is absolutely no precedent for a soft G in that situation. The question is "Would you say that it was pronounced "jif" if the creator hadn't said it was pronounced that way?", and you'd have to look at what already exists in English and conclude that, no, you wouldn't pronounce it that way.
For comparison, look at the number of people who pronounce "gibs" with a hard g when it's derived from "giblets" which isn't. There's clearly some kind of rule being followed here, even if it hasn't been strictly codified anywhere.
It could also be that the most commonly used reference point is gift. That doesn't make it a rule, that makes it a reasonable assumption and it would be just as reasonable if your reference point was giraffe. What I'm saying is the only people who are wrong are the people that insist that they are the only correct ones.
I have to disagree with the idea that "giraffe" is equally reasonable as a reference. Yes, it has an F in it, but it's not exactly the third letter, is it?
I'm saying the presence of an f at all affecting the pronunciation of the g is laughably arbitrary as all the evidence for it has the same exact root word and isn't enough to make it a rule.
My coworker used "jif" the other day, and man... Did I just like immediately lose respect for her.
I didn't even know I cared, and I didn't say anything... But like, wtf? Lol
How do you pronounce gibbet?
Who the hell says "Jif?" Jif is a god damned penut butter.
Who the hell says "Jif?" Jiff is a god damned penut butter.
The creators of Jif call it Jif, and they're clearly authoritative!

I worked with a guy who said jif instead of gif. I stopped talking to him about memes.
I say it that way. It comes from reading a article about the brand new graphics format with a included pronunciation., You write/invent it and you get to decide. Not a whole bunch of late comers who weren't even a gleam in their daddies eye when it was developed.
I don't care if he invented it, he's saying it wrong.
Only morons call it "Jif." That's stupid.
Hahahahaha. Look in the mirror. How do you say Giraffe? lol.
Don't care.
I am right and everyone else is wrong.
Good for you ride it down in flames.
Oh and that down vote wasn't me.
I will die on this hill until the day I actually die.
I get it. Lots of people die wrong.
I am not wrong.
Don't care if everyone on Earth pronounces it like "Jif." That just means everyone else on Earth is wrong.
How about we stop policing the pronunciation and use of specific words as a way to feel like we have control over the lack of effective communication elsewhere in our lives?
If it works to get the listener to know what you are talking about? Then what is the issue?
My problem is that we already have a word jiff, meaning a short amount of time. The overlap in use is minimal, but why add ambiguity.
And don't get me started on to, too, and two.
Their, there, they're.
Its ok that you can't tell those words apart.
But also don't ask people to not do what you can't understand? Or do people in wheelchairs boo at the Olympics?
You say jif don't you.

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