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'Gif', with a hard G, it doesn't matter what people said in 1987
- gregsq 13y agoAll I could think of while reading his preferred phonetic examples were gigantic giraffes.
- pasbesoin 13y agoSome theories regarding optimal syllabic structure would point towards the hard "G" pronunciation. For me, personally, "jiff" (a la "Jif") is peanut butter. "gif" is, by contrast, a distinct sound that doesn't overlap with anything I already know.