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Honestly have never understood the gif debate. Words sometimes have multiple pronunciations. They're both fine.
How dare you not pick a side. Your neutrality sickens me.
What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?
Bunkers. And ski slopes...
Ah, bunkers. You see, bunkers have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I will send wave after wave of my own men at them, until they reach their limit and shutdown.
All I know is my gut says "maybe".
Compassion or exhaustion.
Tell my wife I said "hello"
When I die, please give Kevin my regards.
Pick a side, you monster, you.
it's an acronym (as opposed to initialisms, which are not pronounced as a single word). There is no rule on pronunciation.
scuba nato laser
We don't do this for any other acronym. There is no rule about the pronunciation. It's arbitrary. The creator chose "jif", so that's the "canonical" one.
jifts for Christmas
Yes, the time when you eat gingerbread and drink ginormous amounts of gin, if you get the gist
Let’s hang everybody who claims that gif is pronounced jiff, but not because (as you seem to imply) that’s not how “gi” is read in English because nothing is read always like anything ever in English
All English words that start "gif-" (and for that matter "giv-") have a hard g.
While English is well known for a mess of exceptions, GIF has, or had, no precedent for soft G, so you'll forgive people for thinking that the choice of soft G on GIF is a little unusual and being rubbed the wrong way by it.
All words that start with “gif” have a hard g because there is only one: gift. If “gift” had a soft g, then all the words that start with “gif-“ would have a soft g. If it only has one case of application it’s an accident, not a rule.
And again, saying this as somebody who agrees on “gif” having a hard g despite the delirious claims of its inventor.
by this logic, shouldn’t “SCUBA” be pronounced “Scuhbah” and not “Scooba” like sane people pronounce it?