>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?
Lying about what I did (said).
Quite jewish of you.
- Tries to steal from Whites
- Gets caught and called out
- Just starts making things up and throwing personal insults
You are the one whose nose can be seen from space
Go back to reddit, nigger. You are insufferable as fuck if this is the kind of tangent you go on in a joke thread.
hurrrrr the creator of gif!!!
I do not give a fuck what the creator of gif says about the pronunciation, at all. He's a faggot if he pronounces it jif. He is grammatically/linguistically incorrect. It's not a proper noun, so it follows the rules of the language - ENGLISH, not his wishes. GIF is an acronym and it's spoken form - it's an acronym (NASA), not an initialism (FBI) - follows standard rules; even @Morbo, who I often disagree with, understands this much.
e; Holy fuck, you actually copy pasted the founder of JIF peanut butter, like it's pronunciation was ever in question here. Why are (were) you bringing up irrelevant stuff? Just cluttering the airways so you can pull a strawman? I've known carver didn't "invent" peanut butter since before poal, so you're not helping yourself.