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Taylor Majewski
Do you think it's pronounced "GIF or "JIF"?
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David Singer
Anyone who falls under the "hard g for graphics" reasoning better say "jay-feg" 😁 JIF forever!
Brian Price
@singer uh, you must mean, Jaypeg? Silly, person.
Joshua Talley
Hard G. Always. I have heard the sound - though ridiculous - arguments to the contrary. Nope.
Chris Wilson
Not sure if I’m alone on this one, but every time I hear someone pronounce it with the “J” I think they have a lower IQ.
Emmanuel Hadoux
https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2... But we all know bad habits die hard.
Nathan A. Cleveland
One wouldn’t say, “Be there in a giffy,” would one 😂
Abadesi
Contraversial! Someone told me the inventor of the term says 'jif' even though most folks use 'gif' and that really threw me. Up to that point I assumed it was a hard g at the front.
Abadesi
@rhs he is?! but how could the inventor of gif be anything less than a demiGod?! hehe
Abadesi
@rhs hahaha how have I never seen that? Thanks Russell!!
Jeremy Knedler
@abadesi @rhs Well he is clearly wrong! LOL ;) Just having to use a different spelling to explain it should be a clue that he made the wrong decision. Moving on, is it really Lady Ja Ja??? I've spent 20 years saying Gif and I'm not changing now.
Abadesi
@rhs @jeremy_knedler1 hahaha Lady Ja Ja 😂
Chris Howard
Back in the DOS days, my company Genus Microprogramming sold the GIF Toolkit and we pronounced it "JIF" given the inventor of the format pronounced it that way. Besides, Alex Trebek says so, and that's that. https://www.theatlantic.com/tech...
Mark Branly
Of course it's pronounced "JIF" because it's short for Giraffe-ics Interchange Format.
Geoff Schaadt
All right thinking people who have been working in the tech industry since the late-80's/early-90's know that it's pronounced 'JIF'. Young Hotshot Code Monkey: "JUST ASK AROUND, EVERYONE AGREES IT PRONOUNCED 'GIF'!!" Me: "OK, Millennial"
Jonathan Yagel
What a jift to humanity
Christine Carrier
75%
Sanjay Singh
Is it giraffe or Giraffe ?
Tony Bailey
Get it, it's Funny (GiiF)
Paul Eiche
I am the only one on my team to pronounce it "jif"... and I will never give in.
Julie Gauthier
It's "jif". When you invent your own file format, you get to decide what it's called.
Abadesi
@juliegauthier2 let's invent our own file format and make it start with a silent Q 😅
Doug Hatch
Totally Gif
Jonas Nobile
It's a short for Graphics Interchange Format. So it has to be hard-G. Also the Cambridge dictionary has hard-G. https://dictionary.cambridge.org...
Allan Revah
Is it GIPHY or JIFFY?
Lakeside David-Debo
They're both correct. Could be pronounced (GIF /dʒɪf/ JIF or /ɡɪf/ GHIF).
Greg Battle: gbattle
"Graphics Interchange Format" - it's a hard "g" folks, not rocket science. "JIF" is a peanut butter brand, creamy or crunchy.