Hey B&B guys...it's Ginn not (J)in

[Wizard.sixpack]

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[HD6]

Then I misinterpreted Robbie Faulk's text.

 

[Hump4Hoops]

Is it pronounced like gif?

 

[Wizard.sixpack]

Then I misinterpreted Robbie Faulk's text.

Then I have misinterpreted every feature video on him that I have watched. Plus every highlight video I have watched of him.

 

[Wizard.sixpack]

no it's not. Gif is (J)if.

 

[aTotal360]

Graphics Interchange Format. Not Jraphics Interchange Format. It's a hard G.

 

[Drewbowski]

I thought the creator pronounces it like the peanut butter.

 

[yakalot2]

There’s a lot of confusion in this thread...

 

[FQDawg]

I thought the creator pronounces it like the peanut butter.

I think it's the other way around. I'd always heard that the creator pronounces it with the hard G.

 

[eckie1]

Like the vegetable...****

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Went waaaaay back with that one.

 

[Lawdawg.sixpack]

 

[Cousin Jeffrey]

I could and/or could not care less.

 

[Bulldogg31]

Graphics Interchange Format. Not Jraphics Interchange Format. It's a hard G.

Like if it had a "t" at the end.

 

[Shmuley]

I'm pronouncing it with the hard G. And I don't give a **** if millennials can't pronounce it.

 

[ShrubDog]

Then explain ginny vs guinea. His name is not guin.

 

[HD6]

I'm not saying you are wrong.

 

[seshomoru]

The first N is silent

 

[57stratdawg]

So, it’s not good with a tonic?

 

[Big Sheep81]

Like the drink, only not spelled the same*

 

[BlueRidgeMtns]

so when are we getting the new upvote/downvote? GIF/(J)IF

 

[HumpDawgy]

Do I now have a set of "JO"nads?

 

[Hump4Hoops]

Alternatively, do we have to change how we say giraffe?

 

[Wizard.sixpack]

Graphics Interchange Format. Not Jraphics Interchange Format. It's a hard G.

maybe you should research what the creator called it.

 

[Wizard.sixpack]

he does.

 

[Wizard.sixpack]

I think it's the other way around. I'd always heard that the creator pronounces it with the hard G.

Think again....
http://howtoreallypronouncegif.com/

Why does anyone pronounce GIF with a soft G then?

The creator of the GIF image format, Steve Wilhite of CompuServe, when deciding on the pronunciation, said he deliberately chose to echo the American peanut butter brand, Jif, and CompuServe employees would often say “Choosy developers choose GIF(jif)”, playing off of Jif’s television commercials. If you hear anyone pronounce GIF with a soft G, it’s because they know something of this history. If the Jif peanut butter company never existed, he would have never pronounced GIF with a soft G.
Speaking of Steve Wilhite, when he explains the pronunciation of GIF, he himself has to explicitly write, “It’s pronounced ‘JIF’.” He has to explain it this way because it goes against how it would naturally be pronounced.

 

[CochiseCowbell]

Alternatively, do we have to change how we say giraffe?

Janeane Garofalo approves of this thread.

 

[Wizard.sixpack]

is the second "n" silent in millennials?**

 

[Wizard.sixpack]

Here is one that got me....if you grab dirt from the ground do you have a Fistful of dirt or a Fist Full of dirt?

 

[aTotal360]

Glad to know he knows he was wrong.

 

[CochiseCowbell]

A Fistful of Dollars

 

[Junction John]

Choosy mothers choose Jif. Not Gif.

 

[TrueMaroonGrind]

I thought the creator pronounces it like the peanut butter.

He does and he is wrong. Do you give people G(J)ifts on their bday? No. Also graphics has a hard G.

So he may be good with compression algorithms, but he needs to work on his English.

 

[RocketDawg]

We need to do like the French do when they have the cedilla below a c for a soft c sound. We could have one for g too so there would be no confusion.

 

[mcdawg22]

Here is one that got me....if you grab dirt from the ground do you have a Fistful of dirt or a Fist Full of dirt?

You have dirty phucking hands.

 

[MSUDawg25]

We need to do like the French do

No.

 

[QuaoarsKing]

There is no rule requiring letters in acronyms to be pronounced the same as the words the stand for.

A in NATO, U in scuba, H in OSHA, T in POTUS/FLOTUS/SCOTUS, Q in NASDAQ, etc.

I don't particularly like it either, but gif is pronounced like jif, and that's that.

 

[InTheIttaBenaHotSun]

Back in the late 80's - early 90's we had a kid from Clinton on the golf team named Chad Ginn.......pronounced with a HARD G. As far as I'm concerned it's a Hard G.

 

[TaleofTwoDogs]

Per the Urban Dictionary (if you can't trust the UD what can you trust?)

Graphics Interchange Format. GIFs are image files that are compressed to reduce transfer time. The proper pronunciation of the acronym is a soft "g" sound: like JIF.
The creators of the format, Bob Berry & Steve Wilhite, claim that this soft "g" sound is used. At some point one of them said, "Choosy programmers choose GIF," a play on the peanut butter commercials where "Choosy moms choose Jif." It can also use multiple images for animated effects (animated GIFs).