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GIF is an acronym. GIF stands for Graphics Interchange Format. The word graphics starts with a "g" that sounds like gurgle, good, golf, gallbladder, gun, grapes
by donutdan4114 13y ago
GIF is an acronym. GIF stands for Graphics Interchange Format.
The word graphics starts with a "g" that sounds like gurgle, good, golf, gallbladder, gun, grapes, etc... NOT giraffe.
Thus, it should be pronounce "giff". The inventor of GIF made a format, but he didn't invent acronyms.
Pronouncing it like "jiff" would be like pronouncing GIF like "fignewtons". It doesn't make sense.
Giff4life.
- bluthru 13y agoAs stated elsewhere... Acronyms don't strictly take on the pronunciation of their constructive words. SCUBA, POTUS, NASA, etc. all deviate from the phonetics of the words used to construct the acronym. Why do people take this so personally?
- jlgreco 13y ago> Why do people take this so personally? This is not really about an image format. Linguistic prescriptivism is the real issue.
- snogglethorpe 13y agoIn this case, though, the two pronunciations are roughly half-and-half anyway, so a little nudge from authority might actually make a difference... [Of course in reality, the format will probably become irrelevant, and the word forgotten, before there's any consensus on the pronunication... ^^; ]
- waterlesscloud 13y agoOr people could just say "Oh, I was wrong" and adjust...
- jlgreco 13y ago> wrong They are only "wrong" if you subscribe to prescriptivism... The issue, and the objections being raised by many, are not limited to this particular word. Did you read my post? it was not long.