Like the G in “gigantic”.
And “gigolo.”
Fun random fact: the portmanteau word “ginormous” dates to WWII RAF slang.
and the letter ‘G’
It’s actually pronounced yif
Yiff
Um, I don’t know how to tell you, but that means a wiiiildly different thing. 🤣
I will face Jod and walk backward into hell before I say “jiff”
Clearly you’re not a choosy mom.
Plebe moms choose ghif.
Yes. ghif
How do you say gin or giraffe? Or literally the letter G?
I pronounce them like Gin and Giraffe
I was devastated to learn the creators intended it to be pronounced “jif” like the peanut butter brand
One of the few times I don’t care what the creator says, he was wrong.
And yet your mind knows it’s not possible for him to be wrong since he named it.
Yeah, because it’s a jraphical interface format.
So do you say j-feg? Because the p stands for photographic
One of the common nonsensical arguments heard. What’s the next one?
Giraffical
I say dʒɪf, but the way the person who invented it wants you to say it is a really dumb basis for how something is pronounced, imo.
Me too. I feel like no one pronounced it jif before they said that, and now we have to have an eternal debate over it
That’s literally how every programmer pronounced it before it became an Internet sensation. It had a marketing campaign to “sell” the format because that’s how new standards were created initially. They explicitly chose to name it after the peanut butter because it allowed them to give it a catchy phrase to sell it even better “choosy developers choose gif”.
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Gif, the jift that keeps on jivving.
“I’m not brave enough for politics.”
Immediately makes a hot take.
Why do people have to pronounced it in any way? Why not say G-I-F? I’ve been saying it like that since before I knew about the huge debate💀
Because that’s 3 syllables instead of 1. Ain’t nobody got time for that!
Cuz the devs explicitly named it after the peanut butter and even gave it a catchphrase to make sure you pronounced it correctly. It was a marketing campaign. “Choosy developers choose gif”.
How do you pronounce JIF, then? (That’s the JPEG Interchange Format.)
The same way? There’s thousands of words in the English language with the same pronunciation and different spellings. This isn’t the dunk you think it is.
Besides, gif existed first. If JIF wanted to use the name without confusion maybe they should have come out first (missed it by half a decade) or come up with a catchy phrase.
Gif, clearly.
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Neither do you?
Pronounced it as a soft g in my head the first time I read it, and years later the creator said it was meant to be a soft g, so I feel validated.
When you create an image format, name it whatever you want and if it’s any good and I use it, I’ll call it what you want
Yoofo :(
ʒaɪf
rhymes with “knife”
I take the third route and pronounce it Heef, as in Spanish
 There’s no politics involved at all! One is right and one is wrong. It’s easy :)
We all know it’s pronounced “gif”.
Yeah with the g like in garage.
Or the g in gigantic.
I hate this language…
Exactly!
whichever way pisses off the most people
watch me pronounce it /χäɪf/ (“hyfe”)
Isn’t that one of Elon Muskrat’s kids?
When I want to be annoying (and when the people I’m talking to are aware of furries), I pronounce it ‘yiff’
.jeff
I have a friend named Geoff who says gif with a hard G. I like to pronounce his name with a hard G after that. Geff.
Bezos
oh that’s easy, it’s “dot gif”
