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#CHOOSY PROGRAMMERS CHOOSE GIF FREE#
Out of curiosity, how do you pronounce GIF? Feel free to vote in this poll or to add your thoughts below. Communication is roomy enough to contain such discrepancies, and if confusion arises people are smart and imaginative enough to figure it out. Millions of people pronounce schedule with a sh– sound other millions go with sk. A continued split would not be a problem. Soft- g GIF may gradually fade, or it may retain minor currency. There is more than one right way – there often is – and declaring otherwise doesn’t make it otherwise. The g‘s origin in graphics is another factor in its favour.īut there’s no question both are acceptable: Oxford Dictionaries sanction both, as do Merriam-Webster and the American Heritage Dictionary, each of them based on extensive data of what people say. But there aren’t many gif- words apart from gift, so it’s not surprising either that hard- g GIF predominates. We have hard- g gift, gills, giddy, give and giggles, soft- g gin, giblets, Gilly, giant and gist.* (There’s a Scandinavian flavour to the hard- g set.) So it’s not surprising the pronunciation of a new gi- term would split this way. Gi– is inherently ambiguous, pronunciation-wise.
Pronunciation develops through general agreement – it’s up to everyone who uses the term – and most people seem to prefer hard- g GIF. But this presumes a non-existent authority: the creators don’t get to lay down a planet-wide law, nor does anyone on their behalf. They say it’s “up to the creators”, and “jif” is what the format’s inventors indicated. Some people insist on soft- g GIF, as in “jif”. Or you can say the letters: “gee eye eff”. The short answer is that both /gɪf/ and /dʒɪf/ are fine – you can say GIF with the hard g of gift or the soft g of gin. Absolutely nothing depends on it.When Oxford Dictionaries named the acronym GIF (graphics interchange format) as their US word of the year (in its verb use), debates resurfaced over its correct pronunciation. But Guh-if is worse than pronouncing a bagel like "bag-ull," so educate yourself with this GIF jar ASAP. Like, apparently Adidas is pronounced AH-dee-dahs, not Ah-DEE-dus, because the brand is derived from the name of German founder Adolf Dassler. Employees involved in the development would play with the spread's catchphrase and say “Choosy developers choose GIF(jif).” Wilhite said the pronunciation choice was actually based on the PB brand. Just listen to Steve Wilhite, the Creator of the GIF, speak the truth. Why eat your PB&J in peace when you can start pointless fights with your loved ones? A regular Jif on Amazon costs around $4, but will make for an incredibly lame dining experience. You can get these jars on Amazon now, for $9.99. Smucker Company has teamed up with Giphy to release limited-edition jars of Jif peanut butter labeled Gif instead of Jif. And in case you needed a reminder, The J.M. News flash: it's pronounced like Jif peanut butter. Who the heck is saying potah-to? Probably the same people pronouncing "GIF" with a hard G. You say potato, I say potato in the same way.
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