how do you say GIF out loud?
 

do you say jif like the peanut butter or gif with the "g" sounding like guitar? It stands for Graphics Interchange Format so I lean towards the graphics and guitar "g" sound. I've heard alot of people saying jif so was curious what most people think about it.

I'd think it would be pronounced with a "G" sound, but what do I know? I used to think "meme" was pronounced "ME ME."

Jif

Which is how the creator of the file type intended it to be said...

But it's a g'if.

hard G. I've always thought saying jif was dumb.

somebody was watching reruns of Big Bang Theory last night!

as Leonard said....G = Graphics....so......

I say it with the 'j' and hearing it with the 'g' irritates me, but I refuse to let myself care overly because Chris Hardwick and Wil Wheaton argue about it all the time and they're two of the most irritating guys on earth, particularly when arguing about nerd stuff.

Weird. I've never even heard of, or considered the idea of pronouncing it with a J.

I'm the opposite. Like BL, it's irritating af. Jif is smooth as peanut butter.

Depends on if you're from the south or not

Then the creator is a moron and can't spell

Get your GIF on.

This.

That's a made up word.

G

Wait...WUT?

How is it pronounced then?

Rhymes with "cream," I think. At least that's how I've heard it. I'm not very good at dorkspeak. :D

This is correct.

Pronounced "meem."

It'll always be a MeMe to me

Like gift but without the t.

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My kids laughed at me when I pronounced it "MeMe". Yeah, "meeem", basically.

And it's Gif, with a hard "g"

I think the hard 'g' version bothers me for two reasons.

First, it started off as soft 'g' for the longest, like a decade, without question until pedants started poindextering it.

More importantly, it's too close to GILF. Sarah Palin and Christie Brinkley aside, that's ****ing disgusting.

Ive never even considered it with a j until the last few years. Ive always known it with a hard g.

Same. I thought it was just a younger generation thing...

probably, for me, since gif and jpg came to prominence around the same time.

Jiff and Jaypeg just rolls of the tongue.

Besides certain proper nouns, are there any words that start with a "G" and are pronounced with a "J"?

Why can't we just call it a "G" "I" "F" out loud?

That's gibberish.

And geriatric...

And giraffe...

There are a few after all. :D

I started designing websites in the mid 90's, it's always been a hard G to me...

Jaypeg has aleays been that way but I always differentiated the hard g because of the letter difference.

JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group so pronouncing it is JayPeg makes sense. But since people want to say things wrong maybe I'll just start calling it a GayPeg.

GIF stands for Graphics Interchange Format so I pronounce the G the same way I would in the word graphics.

Well you might as well gay peg, if you're gonna say guh-hiff.

NTTAWWT

I had no idea so many people pronounced it wrong. Never heard anyone pronounce it with a J. If I ever do I'll never be able to take anything they say seriously.

If you pronounce it like the peanut butter you are straight up trash.

I've never heard a person say it with a j sound in real life despite all the talk online.

At work I normally tell a person to "go check the walrus" and then...

Right. It's an acronym. Here's the rest of it...

(G)raphics (I)nterchange (f)ormat..

Gee.Eye.Ef