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There are a lot of examples in linguistics where the "correct" pronunciation of a word is not the common pronunciation, and so the common pronunciation becomes
by jonheller 13y ago
There are a lot of examples in linguistics where the "correct" pronunciation of a word is not the common pronunciation, and so the common pronunciation becomes the correct one.
I've heard maybe one in every twenty people pronunce it as "jif", and when they do so it's not because it seems like it's the natural pronunciation, it's because they once read it was the correct was to pronounce it and want to hammer that fact home.
So I'm sticking with the hard g version.
- mihok 13y agoI mean, I can only speak from personal experience, but I always call gif, jif, and it has nothing to do with whether its correct pronunciation or not. I just read it like that and could care less about the facts
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- jensnockert 13y agoBoth are from a linguistic perspective obviously correct since 'native' speakers use both pronunciations. Linguistics isn't prescriptive in that way, you cannot use it to say that a minority is pronouncing something wrong.