My Blog Load of Crap: Is it GIF (as in gift) or GIF (as in jif)

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Saturday, May 13, 2006

Is it GIF (as in gift) or GIF (as in jif)

Over the years as a graphic designer and web developer, I have heard many people pronounce the file format GIF as 'jif'. It makes my skin crawl and spine tingle when I hear that but apparently other people are not so bothered by it. I have been thinking about this all morning and have not been able to find another word that starts with the letter 'G' that isn't followed by an 'E' that is pronounced like a 'J'. If that last sentence wasn't thoroughly and completely confusing, I don't know what is. But my point is that GIF is pronounced as GGGGGGif as in GIFT!!! Stop screwing it up!

1 Comments:

daniel said...: my uncle giuseppe would take issue with you. but i agree-- it's gotta be with a hard g.; May 15, 2006 6:19 PM