Survey: How do you pronounce the file extension .gif?

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Hard G, as in "game"
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Soft G, as in "giraffe"
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Survey: How do you pronounce the file extension .gif?

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Hard, like gift without the 't'. Seemed a logical word to liken it to for me.

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Hard G, as in git.
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I pronounce it like girraffe. of Jif, the cleaning product.
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Like Jiffy peanut butter :D!
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Usually with the hard "G." But I sometimes slip and say Jif.
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Joel Fagin wrote:Hard, like gift without the 't'. Seemed a logical word to liken it to for me.

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Me too. Although, I think subconsciously I pronounce it this way because the acronym stands for "Graphical Interchange Format", which obviously has the hard 'g' sound.
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avatar__007 wrote:
Joel Fagin wrote:Hard, like gift without the 't'. Seemed a logical word to liken it to for me.

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Me too. Although, I think subconsciously I pronounce it this way because the acronym stands for "Graphical Interchange Format", which obviously has the hard 'g' sound.

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Apparently the fellows at CompuServe who invented the format say it should be pronounced "Jif"; it says so right in the original specifications from 1987 (apparently the peanut butter pun was too difficult to resist). But common usage seems to dictate that it's pronounced with a hard G, logically following the pronunciation of "graphics" (as in Graphics Interchange Format).

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ryclaude wrote:
avatar__007 wrote:
Joel Fagin wrote:Hard, like gift without the 't'. Seemed a logical word to liken it to for me.

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Me too. Although, I think subconsciously I pronounce it this way because the acronym stands for "Graphical Interchange Format", which obviously has the hard 'g' sound.

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Joel Fagin wrote:Hard, like gift without the 't'.
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Hard like Gift, minus the T.
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Ths correct answer is "jiff."

I still pronounce it "gif" like gift though.

edited for horrific grammar.
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Jiff is supposed to be pronounced like yiff though.

Do you really want to talk about yiffs?
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hard G it just makes sense that way
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Yeah, I pronounce it with a soft G sound. It's right behind an "i", so it's pronounced like "j".
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Like the "j" because of it's association with porn.

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War wrote:Jiff is supposed to be pronounced like yiff though.

Do you really want to talk about yiffs?
Jiff is pronounced like yiff? I thought it had the "J" sound.

And there will be no talking about yiff here.
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What joel and rkolter said.
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