Is it gif or jif?

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Something I can educate on - America :wink:

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Scuba, nasa, asp, laser, circus
 and many others
 determined that is a lie

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Well to be fair, it is both as they are actually different file extensions.

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Wait, circus is an acronym?

Edit oh it’s a tech term :laughing:

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Seems to be a pebkac issue
 :thinking:

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Jif.

The fact that the ‘g’ comes from “graphical” is completely irrelevant. I say jif like I say jiraffe, and both are written with a g.

Just like I say “layser” and not “lahser”, even though the ‘a’ stands for amplification, and I say “ufo” instead of “ahfo” even though the ‘u’ stands for “unidentified”.

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Anyone who says JIF is a martian pod person.

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England: “We call it Zed because it’s based on the Greek Zeta.” Me: “Well, how do you pronounce Zeta?” England: “
Zee-ta.”

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Time to post some cat gijs

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I also had to google that and had a good laugh, thanks.

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It’s pronounced BERNSTEEN not BERNSTAAIN

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I’m just gonna leave this here


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I like this one better tho!

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There is no hard-set rule in English for the pronunciation of gi- words.

giraffe is ‘j’
gift is ‘g’
girl is ‘g’
gill is ‘g’
gist is ‘j’
giant is ‘j’

Since there is no such rule that applies universally, and acronyms are not pronounced based on the original terms (Do you say ‘Nay-Suh’?), I’d say it falls to the creator of the word/name to determine how it should be pronounced.

In this case, that’s ‘jif’.

That said, he’s freaking wrong and I will say ‘gif’ anyway until I die.

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Where I am a GIF is those magical fandangled moving pictures.

Jif, well that’s a cleaning product.

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you don’t have the peanut butter?

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I’m calling the police


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Nope, sounds nasty thought.

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gif and no debate

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gif, people that say jif are weird and my mind can’t be changed.

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