g as in gif
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Looks like Wikipedia decided to let the users battle it out since they have both listed. Both the right and the wrong way.
My opinion, I always use a hard F.
Pronounced 'chief.'
Piss off both sides and just spell it. G.I.F.
GIF
"Gee Eye Eff"
i've forgotten most of my IPA so this is really helpful
FUCK ALL Y'ALL 'JIF' MOTHERFUCKERS
How do you pronounce laser
The only thing I know about this is that it's unnecessary to start another "internet war" over how someone pronounced terms like this one, since both pronunciation are recognizable (even my friends often spelled in with different results thanks to their accents and our local language too)
Giraffe-ic Interchange Format.
yeah well jayphegg yourself buddy
well okay i guess i'll send the cookout invitation to OOP then
What rule? I just go by what I read in the 90s about what the creators thought.
If that’s not divisive in today’s political climate, I don’t know what is.
/s
Anything with a dotted underline is canonically meant to be hovered to show a tooltip.
Why do they list an incorrect pronunciation?
To stop the edit wars.
Also the creator of the format attempted to troll people by saying it's officially pronounced "jiff", and it's taken as truth by the gullible and the people who believe that if you create something, you should be able to control what people call it (even if it defies logic).
I agree that the manner this was presented at the 2013 Webbys, which kickstarted the debate, was jokingly, but the specifications have always recommended "jiff" since the format's inception, though also a bit jokingly:
Wilhite and the team who developed the file format included in the technical specifications that the acronym was to be pronounced with a soft g. In the specifications, the team wrote that "choosy programmers choose ... 'jif'", in homage to the peanut butter company Jif's advertising slogan of "choosy moms choose Jif".[3]


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