looking forward to the comments

The author calls it JIF. He intended it as Jif because he has butter fingers and like butter brand JIF.

I'm used to hard G though.

G in gif stands for graphics just like how P in jpeg stands for poto

English is phonetically inconsistent, you can find examples to support both ways of pronouncing it.

Hard G and soft G are both acceptable pronunciations, the only way to be wrong in the situation is to insist that your preferred way to pronounce it is the only correct way to pronounce it

Oh, except silent G. Silent G is wrong.

Man that's so clever and new. Like a giraffe drinking gin

In English the correct way to pronounce something is the way that will most reliably communicate to your intended audience without ambiguity or distraction.

Since my intention is usually to convey my superior knowledge of trivia and/or to stir shit up, I pronounce it with a soft g.

I seen a guraffe at the zoo!

And how do you pronounce giraffe? Giant?

I don't really care for a logical explanation. JIF just sounds fucking stupid and yall know it.

This comment section is killing me lmao.

You have people saying that language is fluid, and that one person cannot decide which pronunciation is correct. Then, in that same comment, they say that their preferred pronunciation is obviously correct.

Hard g, soft g, you do you. It really doesn't change much.

I say jif. But when heard someone say jithub instead of github i felt the cringe

Not this again....lol it's gif god damn it!

It's pronounced gif with a hard G.

When I rise to power anyone who disagrees will be immediately found guilty of thought crimes and sentenced to castration, followed by execution, in that order.

Next thing people will be pronouncing SQL as "sequel" and then where will we be?

Jood Gob with this.

Look, I say Jif, but this meme is hilarious. Can't we just stop the silly fighting?

When I first encountered the .gif, I read it as G-I-F, as in jee aye ef. From there it was a jiffy to pronounce it as jif.

Gesus christ lemmy

https://gizmodo.com/the-creator-of-the-gif-says-its-pronounced-jif-he-is-509179289

We were literally told it was pronounced "jif" by the creator. Sorry if it hurts your little feelings

such a low quality jPHeg... tsk tsk

This is the reason I say Gesus and oh my Jod, now. Can't say everyone appreciates it.

Wilhite says jif, I use jif. He created it, he gets to name it.

I say it with a soft G. Fight me.

does it really matter? as long as you passed third grade reading comprehension you can use context from the conversation to understand that the person is talking about a moving image instead of a peanut butter brand.

I make everyone angry by pronouncing it as gife

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Gif stands for "Graphics Interchange Format". If it were pronounced "jif", it would be "Jraphics Interchange Format".

It is a Graphics Card, not a Jraphics Card!

This always attracts pedants whining "the creator said to pronounce it like jif!" and it's like, OK, A) That's an appeal to authority, one of the best known logical fallacies B) The creator of Mother's Day spent over 30 years trying to get people to stop celebrating it, but too bad, I'm still gonna wish my Mom a happy Mother's Day, you know?

Shadow's take

Choosy mothers choose Jif.

I guess you call them jay fegs right?

This is why I pronounce it jif, a gif is about 5 seconds or even up to about a minute in length. (originally)

it takes a short amount of time to watch from start to finish, so its "done in a jiffy." not a giffy.

Back to this old debate again. I thought we had come to an answer.

Lmao I dunno why but I find the bird puppet and jod combo hilarious.

Look, it’s not Jrafics Interchange Format.

Case closed.

Just pronounce it the way you pronounce it. I say gif, because in the uk we have a well known brand of lemon juice called jif so it makes sense to not pronounce gif un the same way. Maybe in other countries they dont have jif.

Doesn't matter

https://youtu.be/4AMn-7qalgw

The letter G itself is pronounced with the “j” sound.

I started out pronouncing GIF by saying the letters: “g-I-f.” It eventually shortens into “jif.”

Tbh, I used to pronounce it 'JIF' (because in my native language, 'gi' is always a soft 'g', and I usually speak that), but now that I think about it in English, a hard G makes more sense.

In Romanian I also pronounce gigabytes as jigabytes :)

Now that's a Jod I could jet behind.

I’m going to avoid all controversy and just make the g silent. It’s ‘if from now on.
If I say it fast enough, people will just assume I use their version.

Enjoy using the toilet paper wrong OP

I personally prefer Skippy.

It's pronounced "Giraffe".

It's pronounced gif

Jood. The further we stray from Jod, the jreater this society will jet.

Eh it’s 50-50 where I’m from, even in the tech community. I’ve always use the j sound when I say it, cause I used to think it was short for giraffe

I've been fighting this war for OP's side since 1987. Come at me, I'm on Tijer Guice and shit.

Jone and Jode save us!

Do I look like I know what a goddamn gif is?

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I think you'll find that is jod!

I try to say jif because of the whole "that's how the inventor says it" thing, but In my mind I always think "God this is dumb as shit"

I'm not aware of any word that changes pronunciation of the first letter by adding a letter at the end. The closest thing we have to GIF is "gift", being "gif" with an extra "t" at the end. By that logic GIF should be pronounced like "gift" without the "t".

In English GI is usually pronounced j. But really who cares?

Thank yod someone finally said it!

There already a word in the English language which is almost the same : gift. So i prononce it like gift without the t.