GIF stands for Graphic Interchange Format. I don't give a f*ck what the creator calls it, he's a programmer, not a linguist. It's pronounced GIF with a hard G.
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· 11 years ago
Why not just pronounce it as the individual letters?
Or...am I the only person that does this?
They pronounced it "jif" so they could use the tag line "Choosy programmers choose GIF" which was a play on Jif peanut butters popular tag line at the time. So it has nothing to do with how the acronym _should_ be pronounced and all to do with marketing.
I pronounce it with a hard g. Why? Because GIF is an acronym for
Graphics Interchange Format. And no one says graphic as jraphic. So that is why I say GIF with a hard g. Not as the peanutbutter
Or...am I the only person that does this?
/jif/
Noun
A popular format for image files, with built-in data compression.
A file in this format.
Graphic Interchange Format
Graphics Interchange Format. And no one says graphic as jraphic. So that is why I say GIF with a hard g. Not as the peanutbutter