The ancient Arcadians actually pronounced it .flif
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Hard G. It's “Graphics Interchange Format”, not “Jraphics Interchange Format”.
Try to pronounce the letter G. What does it sound like? Hard or soft G?
Now, while pronouncing "G", close your lips to make the sound "G-if".
There you have it, how to pronounce "Gif".
Ps: honestly, That just popped up in my head a moment ago and I'm just trying to troll, wholeheartedly I believe it is hard-G as in Graphics.
Try to pronounce the letter G. What does it sound like? Hard or soft G?
According to wikipedia the phonetic usage includes:
[g]
[d͡ʒ]
[ʒ]
[ŋ]
[j]
[ɣ~ʝ]
[x~χ]
[d͡z]
[ɟ]
[k]
[ɠ]
[ɢ]
/dʒiː/
For English pronunciation it lists:
/dʒ/
/ɡ/
/ʒ/ and
silent
Does that mean you also pronounce scuba sku•ba instead of skoo•bah? Because that U stands for Underwater not OOnderwater. And what about Jpeg? Shouldn't it be Jeg because the P in photographic is silent.
Or jfeg because photography has an f sound.
It's soft g gif. Because the original joke was choosy moms choose jif, and choosy web developers choose gif.
I didn't know about the wrong way to say it until that LOTR meme.
I grew up without ever having to say it out loud, and the first time I did I say "dot Gee Eye Eff".
I stand by this as the correct pronunciation. .exe, .pdf, .html, .PNG, etc you say as "dot" followed by the letters, why should .jpg and .gif be any different?
ekseh, pdff, ping
It's yiff, like furry sex. But in all seriousness, if you don't pronounce it with a hard g, then you can f##k off on the short bus.
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It's "dot Ge I Ef"
Jif