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GIF Creator Sets Record Straight: It's Pronounced 'JIF'

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Wilhite accepted a lifetime achievement award at the Webby's, which require winners to limit their acceptance speeches to five words.

"Instead of speaking his five words tonight, Steve is using his own invention to accept his award," Tumblr founder David Karp said in introducing him

 

 

English language calls for the hard G sound when before a soft vowel (i, e, or y). There are exceptions of course...

Think of giraffe, German, or analogy.

 

How where you pronouncing it this whole time?

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That's what I used to call it!!! Then i heard everyone calling it GIF so i changed thinking i was wrong.

Take that anyone who didn't call it JIF!!

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No. Learn to spell.

 

(I pronounced it with a hard G, so GIF.)

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I WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG YES

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English language calls for the hard G sound when before a soft vowel (i, e, or y). There are exceptions of course...

Think of giraffe, German, or analogy.

"If you are not paying for it, then you ARE NOT the customer. You are the product being sold."

 

"If you are not learning, then you are forgetting."

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I thought this was known? He said the same thing a couple of years ago. I just keep saying "gif" because "jif" sounds stupid.

Same with PNG, officially its pronounced "ping". But I just say PE EN GE.

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English language calls for the hard G sound when before a soft vowel (i, e, or y). There are exceptions of course...

Think of giraffe, German, or analogy.

It's not much of a rule if it has so many exceptions, eh?  :lol:

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Jif sounds so stupid compared to gif.

So no thanks!

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I can't wait until this Christmas when I open all my jitfts.  (For the record, I still call it Gif, like the G in Green).

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Who cares? How is this an issue that so many people spend time on debating? Doesn't matter what the creator says, wanna pronounce it GIF, do that, whanna pronounce it JIF, do that. Problem solved.

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Jif sounds so stupid compared to gif.

So no thanks!

 

Sounds peanut buttery :lol:

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I knew about this for quite a while now about the time that I began watching the tek... and since than I've been saing gif with a J

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Its an acronym for Graphics Interchange Format so I will keep calling it GIF, but at the end of the day like many words in the english language it doesn't really matter

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Jif sounds better than Gif, I think.

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I love this, it's pronounced "Jif", not "Gif"! THEN WHY DID YOU MAKE IT .gif INSTEAD OF .jif ??? I'm going to be a #BADBOI and still say gif, like how it's spelled

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I love this, it's pronounced "Jif", not "Gif"! THEN WHY DID YOU MAKE IT .gif INSTEAD OF .jif ??? I'm going to be a #BADBOI and still say gif, like how it's spelled

Some times we use G in names instead of J. Like Gerry.

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Some times we use G in names instead of J. Like Gerry.

 

Like Geoff/Jeff.

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Some times we use G in names instead of J. Like Gerry.

 

Do you say Jerry? Gerry actually sounds like a more realistic sounding name. Anyways, it still makes more sense to spell it .jif then, you can't say "Gif" there

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Do you say Jerry? Gerry actually sounds like a more realistic sounding name. Anyways, it still makes more sense to spell it .jif then, you can't say "Gif" there

Yeah. I say Jerry. But I've seen Jerry spelled with a G instead of a J.

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Yeah. I say Jerry. But I've seen Jerry spelled with a G instead of a J.

 

It's probably just a regional thing then. It just sounds like the guy wants to piss off everyone, because only the internet hipsters says "jif", while most regular people say "gif"

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Personally I don't care how people pronounce GIF. It's kind of like the words "potato" and "tomato" Some people say it the way it's spelled, while others say it like this "pototo" or "tomoto" with long O's in the middle.

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