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I meant that the average techie person is much more likely to know what the creator intended for the pronunciation and are therefore more likely to say jif I p
by Lewton 5y ago
I meant that the average techie person is much more likely to know what the creator intended for the pronunciation and are therefore more likely to say jif
I personally don't know anyone who'd pronounce it with a j sound and I severely doubt anyone in my country would default to a j sound, but I'm open to that being cultural. I just think the fact that hard G wins by such a landslide is pretty good evidence that defaulting to a j sound is incredibly rare
- ghusbands 5y agoAh, so you aren't saying a majority of techies will use 'jif' (which is I think what many are reading from "techies are way more likely to pronounce it jif"), but just that they are more likely than non-techies to do so, given the prior knowledge. Fair. A 20/80 split in a poll in a world in which lots of people are correcting others towards a hard G indicates that there's plenty of people choosing to pronounce it like "gin" or "gist" or "gelatin" or "genius" or "generous" or "genetic" or "giant" or "gymnast" or "ginger" or ...