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At university we pronounced it ‘sequel’. Anyway, the benefit is the ease of pronunciation. It’s like .JPG files: sure, you can call them ‘Jay Pee Gee’ files, b
by Tijdreiziger 2y ago
At university we pronounced it ‘sequel’. Anyway, the benefit is the ease of pronunciation.
It’s like .JPG files: sure, you can call them ‘Jay Pee Gee’ files, but it’s easier to call them ‘Jay-Pegs’.
- lioeters 2y agoSimilar to .GIF, which I prefer to pronounce "Gif" instead of "Jee Ai Ef".
- thehappypm 2y agoit’s pronounced “Gif”.
- bradleykingz 2y ago[dead]
- Gormo 2y agoThat format is actually properly called JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group), and the extension '.jpeg' is commonly used on *nix OSes. Using '.jpg' only became the standard on DOS/Windows in conformance with the old 8.3 filename constraint -- the same reason HTML files are often '.htm' rather than '.html' on Windows.