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How do you pronounce GUI? WELLLLLL, it's JIF now, right?

How do you pronounce GUI? WELLLLLL, it's JIF now, right?
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GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is an acronym and therefore pronounced as a single word rather than an initialism which is spoken as individual letters. For English speakers, GIF would pronounced phonetically with a hard "G" sound as in the word "go". Pronouncing it with the variant "g" sound where it mimics a "j" is phonetically incorrect, but the language rules and borrowed words problem in modern English leads some to pronounce the "g" sound like that in "giraffe". Additonally, the "G" stands for the word "graphics" which is pronounced with a hard "g" sound and therefore should remain the starting sound in GIF. Saying "JIF" is incorrect grammatically but socially debatable due to the many quirks and intricacies in the English language. Even if the person who named GIF says "JIF", the rules still apply and they are wrong if they insist it is an acronym rather than a made up word used in place of an acronym.

TL;DR: English is hard, but "JIF" is grammatically wrong.

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Agree with you, was just thinking about this because... because, and thought of GUI where EVERYBODY pronounces it correctly - Gooey - and GIF also starts (G)raphical. But if it's truly jif then GUI is jewy...

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Graphics starts with a hard G, therefore GIF does. If it were say Giraffe Interchange Format, "J"IF would be proper.

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Graphics starts with a hard G, therefore GIF does. If it were say Giraffe Interchange Format, "J"IF would be proper.

Complicating the matter further, there is such a thing as a "JIF" file format. That one would be allowed to have the "J" or soft "G" sound since the J stands for "Joint". JIF/JIFF are archaic now and replaced by the widely accepted JPEG format instead so it's probably not so confounding in modern use.

A Giraffe Interchange Format sounds like something that needs to exist. Giraffes need to interchange data too.

A JIF file, often referring to the JPEG Interchange Format or the related JPEG File Interchange Format (JFIF), is an image format that contains compressed photographic data. Primarily used as an early, basic version of JPEG, JIF files contain a header with image specifications (dimensions, color depth) and the pixel

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JIF/JIFF are archaic now and replaced by the widely accepted JPEG format

Too bad. IFF was a good file format that made it easy for programs to add extra data without breaking reading on other programs. AIFF, TIFF, RIFF, AVI all were based on it. I can't tell whether JIF was. Looks like a mess of formats for JPEG (en.wikipedia.org) (JIF, JFIF, and EXIF, and a combo of the last two).

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Jif. The inventor pronounced it that way. You get to make your own stuff.

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Because he made an image protocol you get to dictate language.

Quite jewish of you.

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>Steve Wilhite, who invented the GIF format in 1987, explicitly said it's pronounced "JIF" (soft G), even declaring it in his 2013 Webby Award acceptance and insisting dictionaries that accept both are wrong. He chose it partly as a pun on the Jif peanut butter slogan ("Choosy developers choose GIF").

>Americanized form of German Willheit

>William T. Young (February 15, 1918 – January 12, 2004) was an American businessman, philanthropist, and prominent thoroughbred horse racing owner-breeder from Lexington, Kentucky. Born in Lexington to Margaret Mitchell Thompson and Willis S. Young, he graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1939 with a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering (with high distinction). After serving in the U.S. Army during World War II (including stateside in the ordnance branch), he returned to Lexington in 1946. That year, he founded W. T. Young Foods, Inc. and built a peanut butter manufacturing facility in Lexington (at 767 East Third Street, constructed for about $75,000). The company produced Big Top peanut butter, which he grew into one of the leading national brands under the eventual name Jif.

>William T. Young (the founder of the peanut butter business that became Jif) was born in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1918, to parents Willis Samuel Young (or Willis S. Young) and Margaret Mitchell Thompson (or Margaret Thompson Young). Both parents were also from Kentucky, and the family appears to have deep roots in the state.His family names—Young and Thompson—are common Anglo-Saxon/Scottish or English surnames, which aligns with many early settler families in the American South and Appalachia/Kentucky region during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Why are you trying to deny white history? You're a George Washington Carver recipe "inventor" guy, aren't you?

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Lying about what I did (said).

Quite jewish of you.

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gif is gif.

"Yiff" is internet slang originating from furry fandom communities — it refers to sexually explicit furry content/roleplay.

no argument. end of story. furfags get the rope.

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I don't think acronyms should be pronounced phonetically. Spell it out.. G.I.F. Yes, L.A.S.E.R. too.

Cry more, retards.

You don't try to pronounce FBI, ATF, EPA, etc. Just because it has vowels in convenient places doesn't change an acronym to a fucking word.

Also PotUS/SCotUS probably shouldn't even be considered acronyms, they are titles..