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I don't know why, but I've always said 'jif'. 'gif' sounds so wrong to me. Same with Quake players saying 'gibbed' instead of 'jibbed'. The 'G' sounds makes me
by gagege 13y ago
I don't know why, but I've always said 'jif'. 'gif' sounds so wrong to me.
Same with Quake players saying 'gibbed' instead of 'jibbed'. The 'G' sounds makes me throw up a little.
- oneeyedpigeon 13y agoThere was a brand of kitchen cleaner marketed in my country as Jif, since renamed Cif. I think most people in the UK favour the hard G for the file format, because invoking images of kitchen cleaner when you're discussing image files is just a distraction :-)
- gagege 13y agoGood point. In the US we have Jif peanut butter. That's where the name comes from. The slogan was "Choosy moms choose Jif." And so the .gif slogan is "Choosy developers choose Gif."
- riffraff 13y agooh, Cif is an english name? How do you pronounce that ? I am under the impression there aren't many words starting with "ci" in english but I think they mostly sound like "see" (e.g. circuit). Of course, for me it's pronounced as "cheef", which goes perfectly with "jeef" :)
- oneeyedpigeon 13y agoNo, I think it's a 'European' name: I.e. it was branded Cif across Europe, and only Jif in Britain, until recently. I'm not sure of the specific origin of the name; either way, it's pronounced the same way as the start of the word "sit"