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> except gin Gin is all I need to be convinced honestly, and where I come from that's a more frequently used, relevant word than everything else you listed.
by veltas 5y ago
> except gin
Gin is all I need to be convinced honestly, and where I come from that's a more frequently used, relevant word than everything else you listed.
- m463 5y agoI wonder if we should let "git" follow this rule, sometimes.
- keithnz 5y agomaybe you should put your thoughts into a gist :)
- JKCalhoun 5y agoGit outta here.
- alexb_ 5y agonot gonna lie I definitely used a soft G before learning otherwise
- hardg 5y agoGlobal Information Tracker, so no
- brudgers 5y ago"Did you mean 'just in time?'"
- layer8 5y agoI have a coworker who does.
- davidjytang 5y agoWhat would Mel Gibson think?
- charcircuit 5y agoEtymology wise it inherits that from the sound of "gen" from "geneva." Since GIF is a new word it can't inherit a pronunciation from a former spelling.
- mdp2021 5y agoIt may inherit it from the sounds of the words that built it: 'Graphics'. Homography is not identity. Anyway: this debate risks being inappropriate in this occasion.
- charcircuit 5y agoDo you have any examples of that being the case where the pronunciation favors that of an internal word over the natural pronunciation.
- mdp2021 5y agoTo reason in those terms, you should first define such «natural pronunciation» principle and rules. 'PGN', if made an acronym out of the initalism it is, could reflect both 'pigeon' and 'pagan'; it's "Paris German News", so the direction of 'pigeon' is the one. An example of an acronym: the last in 'OPEC' - which per se could be soft or hard - has to reflect that the C is the initial of 'Countries'.
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