Gif stands for Graphics Interchange Format. when graphics is pronounced “JAFFICKS” Then I will pronounce Gif with a “J”
^ This
It’s followed by an R of course it would be a hard g. But Giraffe is a soft g. Genius is a soft g. Gin is pronounced with a soft g too. GIF is I following a g, it would be pronounced with a soft g.
It aint Jif peanut butter though.
It would still be pronounced like that. The general rule is if the g is followed by an e or i, it’s soft g. U or a consonant is generally a hard g.
I will DIE WITH MY HONOR
Gear =/= Jear
Get =/= Jet
Gift =/= Jift
Give =/= Jive
In English, words with a ‘G’ followed by an ‘e’ or an ‘i’ can be pronounced with either a hard ‘G’ or a soft ‘G’.
Words with Germanic roots such as ‘gear’, ‘get’, ‘gift’, ‘give’ (see above) are pronounced with a hard ‘g’ while words with Latin or Greek roots such as ‘gem’, ‘general’, ‘giraffe’, ‘giant’, are pronounced with a soft ‘g’.
So no, it’s not exactly a “general rule” that ‘g’ followed by an ‘e’ or an ‘i’ makes a soft ‘g’ sound.
Additionally, “GIF” is an ACRONYM starting with a word that begins with a hard ‘g’ sound, so “GIF” is therefore pronounced with a hard ‘g’.
We fight with honor
it’s a hard g.
Anyone else needs to be LOCKED UP
The g pronunciation is like the truth – hard.
Agreed.
(Although I wouldn’t mind pronouncing it the other way in order to get locked up) (I’d probably enjoy it!)
I stand with a hard g.
You heard me.
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As long as the speaker and listener can both understand the intent, it doesn’t matter. There is no inherent right, and no inherent wrong, way to write/say/pronounce things.
Wrong! It’s a hard g, anyone who disagrees gets the gulag
Kinky.
You damned jif apologist. I DON’T KNOW YOU ANYMORE
This is me, hella apologetic. 😉
AND YOU USED HELLA. GET OUT OF MY INTERNET
*whistles off into the horizon*
You let a pinkbimbogirl chase you off the internet? I’m telling all of your followers!
Hey, she’s crafty! Don’t underestimate her, that’s how she gets you.
I’ve dealt with bimbos before. I have brains. Just look at her profile – holey heck! Just look at the babes on her blog….(wanders off, hand in pants)
That’s how they get you, indeed. 😉
Almost all of these arguments, on both sides, are bad and wrong:
The coiner of a word doesn’t have control over how it’s pronounced.
There are no solid rules about whether “g” is hard or soft before a vowel.
The pronunciation of individual letters in an acronym is not determined by the pronunciation of the words the acronym stands for (the C in ICE stands for “Customs,” but we still pronounce it “ice”)
Words are cultural constructs. Everything about them–meaning, pronunciation, spelling–is entirely determined by consensus of the community using them.
And since I have literally never heard an actual flesh-and-blood human being advocate pronouncing it “jif,” only faceless Internet “people,” I can only conclude all of you are bots, and the correct pronunciation for humans is “gif,” because it’s not fucking peanut butter.
