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It's the same as GIS, you wouldn't say jizz now would you?
by giancarlostoro 6mo ago
It's the same as GIS, you wouldn't say jizz now would you?
- notabotiswear 6mo agoI take it that you haven’t met the Arcgees people…
- DoctorOW 6mo agoI absolutely do, every single time it comes up.
- kevin_thibedeau 6mo agoThe developer of the format declared the pronunciation 30+ years ago. It has always been jif.
- Geezus_42 6mo agoYeah, but society overruled them.
- pardon_me 6mo agoHow do you pronounce giraffe?
- parineum 6mo agoHow do you pronounce gift?
- giancarlostoro 6mo agoJift
- briffle 6mo agogorge = george
- giancarlostoro 6mo agoSame way I pronounce my first name btw ;) but I think of "gif" as "gift" and this is probably the subconscious association people make without realizing it.
- WorldMaker 6mo agoWhich is why I find it fun to bring up that in Old English "gift" hadn't yet picked up the "t" and was spelled "gif", but in Old English "g" was most commonly "HY". I like the Old English pronunciation of "gif" as "HYEEF", which is a "compromise" position that often makes some of both soft-g and hard-g "gif" pronunciation fans angry.
- ziml77 6mo agoI have never heard this third option before but I love it!
- giancarlostoro 6mo agoI sometimes just pick the opposite of whatever everyone agreed to just for fun. I do the same when people cry about vim or emacs since I have used both. ;) Some men just want to watch the world burn. At least it's mostly harmless fun anyway. It's even funnier when they bring up how my name is pronounced in defense of "jiff" and I tell them, so you're calling me the expert in "Gi" pronunciation then? :)
- pardon_me 6mo agoI do too. The idea that any one pronunciation is more correct based on the letters is quite amusing, given there's examples that work all ways.
- dijksterhuis 6mo agoi am absolutely going to from now on
- ziml77 6mo agoI hadn't thought about how to pronounce GIS, but do you have a problem with the pronunciation of the Japanese Industrial Standards: JIS?
- s20n 6mo agoI've been pronouncing both of them as /dʒis/ like hiss and not /dʒɪz/. I however am not a native english speaker of English. I wonder if native speakers gravitate towards the z more?
- bronson 6mo agoI think it depends on region. Related, many speakers pronounce chips and salza, Tezla, Wezley.
- ziml77 6mo agoI would end both with the S sound, but I'm operating under the assumption that the person I was replying to either pronounces their Ss as Zs or can't tell the difference between the S and Z sounds. Because the other assumption I could have gone with is the less charitable take that they know GIS with a soft G doesn't sound like jizz, but they were just looking for a crude way to mock the soft G.