how is .gif pronounced?

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how do you gif, hard g or soft g?

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Option	Votes
"giff"	94
"jiff"	37

― / me, / me. /. /. (goole), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:11 (twelve years ago) link

"yiff"

― lil queequeg (peter grasswich), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:13 (twelve years ago) link

I need a definitive answer on this!

― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:13 (twelve years ago) link

"hiff"

― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:13 (twelve years ago) link

"Viking"

― Tom Hardy & the Batbreakers (Phil D.), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link

JIFF
JAY-peg
PEE-en-JEE

― ciderpress, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link

ciderpress otm x3

― gesange der yuengling (crüt), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link

giff ffs

― thread lock holiday (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link

hard?

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link

"JIFF
JAY-peg
PEE-en-JEE

― ciderpress, Wednesday, October 10, 2012 2:14 PM (38 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink"

WHAT?

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link

I mean I'm with you on jay-peg and pee-en-jee but I thought everyone said GIF

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:16 (twelve years ago) link

Graphics
Interchange
Format

GIF WITH A HARD "G"

― Tom Hardy & the Batbreakers (Phil D.), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:16 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah I am shocked that anyone would use a soft g.

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:17 (twelve years ago) link

I like my image formats like I like my men... with a hard G.

― emil.y, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:17 (twelve years ago) link

hard G, as in Garu

― WmC, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:18 (twelve years ago) link

jiff is what I've always said/thought. I also call .wav files WAHV files so I am basically just a horrible person

― gesange der yuengling (crüt), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:18 (twelve years ago) link

i call those 'wave'

― ciderpress, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:19 (twelve years ago) link

the G is silent tbrr

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:19 (twelve years ago) link

yeah, I know that's the normal and logical way to say it. xpost

― gesange der yuengling (crüt), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:19 (twelve years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/8G63z.gif

― barthes simpson, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:20 (twelve years ago) link

giff is more logical but i say jiff anyway

― turds (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:20 (twelve years ago) link

crut you're a monster

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:20 (twelve years ago) link

"ngiff"

― jim, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:21 (twelve years ago) link

gif

what are you all french or something jeez

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:21 (twelve years ago) link

Jiff is what the inventors called it but wtf do those fools know.

― Always try to avoid setting up future opportunities for kicking yourself (ledge), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:21 (twelve years ago) link

Hard-g "gif" is such a punchable sound.

― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:21 (twelve years ago) link

I pronounce it with the hebrew pronounciation "gghhhhhif"

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:22 (twelve years ago) link

"jiff" = http://www.brandchannel.com/images/Home/460_home2_img1_peanutbutter_jif.jpg

― Tom Hardy & the Batbreakers (Phil D.), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:23 (twelve years ago) link

Anyone who doesn't say gif is a git.

― Always try to avoid setting up future opportunities for kicking yourself (ledge), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:23 (twelve years ago) link

I also say "jit"

― gesange der yuengling (crüt), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:24 (twelve years ago) link

This is blowing my mind.

It's OK though cause I have a hard time remembering how to say Wi-fi. I've got it down now but once years ago I was on the phone with Hoosteen and said wi-fi like "wiffle" "feast" and he was like, WAHT DID YOU JUST SAY?! So I understand these things are sometimes hard.

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:24 (twelve years ago) link

"gif" =

http://eventityinc.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/emily-giffin_books11.jpeg

― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:24 (twelve years ago) link

I say giff, but I suspect I'm wrong about this one

― Moodles, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link

http://www.graceevan.org/files/Missions/Community%20Missions/JIFF%20logo.jpg

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link

wiffle feast!

― gesange der yuengling (crüt), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link

it's a thing

well, now it is

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:26 (twelve years ago) link

Jiff is what the inventors called it

Yeah, people. Stop disrespecting science.

― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:26 (twelve years ago) link

wee-fee

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:26 (twelve years ago) link

no more like wiff-fee

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:27 (twelve years ago) link

gif, absolutely, thought tbh this word should be avoided in irl out loud settings

― max, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:27 (twelve years ago) link

http://www.footballcardgallery.com/pics/1963-Kahns/23_Frank_Gifford_football_card.jpg

― Tom Hardy & the Batbreakers (Phil D.), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:27 (twelve years ago) link

max otm

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:27 (twelve years ago) link

ANYWAY

GIFF

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:27 (twelve years ago) link

does anybody have the password to the wiffle feast

― barthes simpson, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:27 (twelve years ago) link

http://www.olsenhome.com/gif/

― 1staethyr, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:27 (twelve years ago) link

there is no way I am going to say anything other than "wiffle feast" when talking about wi-fi from now on

― gesange der yuengling (crüt), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:28 (twelve years ago) link

that page is bullshit

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:28 (twelve years ago) link

surprised you could even access that page on the wiffle feast

― barthes simpson, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:29 (twelve years ago) link

mmm wiffle feast

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:29 (twelve years ago) link

Authorial intent is irrelevant, fuck a Compuserve.

― Tom Hardy & the Batbreakers (Phil D.), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:30 (twelve years ago) link

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I'm pretty sure in Dutch it should be 'hiff'

― Ismael Klata, Friday, 26 April 2013 21:06 (eleven years ago) link

xp: exactly, why change the sound of the g from what it is in "graphic"? "gif" and "jpeg" aren't supposed to be alliterative.

next thing I know someone's going to try and tell me it should be "guh-peg" or "jah-peeg" or something equally wrong

― joygoat, Friday, 26 April 2013 21:09 (eleven years ago) link

jah peg

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 26 April 2013 21:10 (eleven years ago) link

—Bob Marley

― resulting paste of mashed cheez poops (silby), Friday, 26 April 2013 21:12 (eleven years ago) link

Gay pegs

― how's life, Friday, 26 April 2013 21:15 (eleven years ago) link

I'm pretty sure in Dutch it should be 'hiff'

― Ismael Klata, vrijdag 26 april 2013 23:06 (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Lol, no, Obama speaks perfect Dutch in this regard

― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 26 April 2013 21:16 (eleven years ago) link

I've only come round to saying hard G in the last 5 years or so. Since I first came across them on Compuserve I pronounced it soft G, and since I never heard said it loud or heard it said by anyone else, I just always assumed it was so and said soft G, convinced I was right. But there's no point swimming against the tide of truth.

― give me back my 200 dollars (NotEnough), Friday, 26 April 2013 21:19 (eleven years ago) link

tbf saying "jiff" is kind of funny so it's all good

― resulting paste of mashed cheez poops (silby), Friday, 26 April 2013 21:20 (eleven years ago) link

and curse sir walter raleigh he was such a stupid gif

― how's life, Friday, 26 April 2013 22:56 (eleven years ago) link

It is pronounced dot-get-teh-fuck-out

― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 27 April 2013 00:49 (eleven years ago) link

Shouldn't it be jay-feg, given that the p is for foto?

― you say potatooles (onimo), Sunday, 28 April 2013 12:42 (eleven years ago) link

three weeks pass...

http://24.media.tumblr.com/5b8557ed697342ccc5af437d798121c6/tumblr_mmm9mbNe381rw9dz1o1_500.gif

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 14:23 (eleven years ago) link

How long do I need to watch this before Bugs tricks Daffy into pulling down the wrong poster?

― The Parvenu Fucktard (onimo), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 14:42 (eleven years ago) link

It is Jif with a J

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22620473

― not_goodwin, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 14:30 (eleven years ago) link

"The OED told the BBC that it was beyond the software engineer's control to determine how the word should be said."

smackdown

― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 14:32 (eleven years ago) link

It should not be pronounced at all.

― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 14:33 (eleven years ago) link

Jod dammit, I've been pronouncing it wrong all this time.

― StanM, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 14:33 (eleven years ago) link

fortunately for 'the inventor' the english speaking word has corrected his obvious mistake

― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 14:43 (eleven years ago) link

world

― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 14:44 (eleven years ago) link

i notice that Bugs is pulling for hard G, that settles it imo

― the league against cool sports (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 14:45 (eleven years ago) link

Should be
http://in.all.biz/img/in/catalog/10420.jpeg

― not_goodwin, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 14:48 (eleven years ago) link

Is this an OK Cupid question? It really should be.

― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 14:49 (eleven years ago) link

gif inventor getting all butthurt about a specific pronunciation just makes me want to do the opposite of whatever he says

― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 14:51 (eleven years ago) link

Can not think of a more annoying-sounding collection of glots than "gif."

― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 14:52 (eleven years ago) link

And I blame

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_u8A2hYEV5xM/S9yiZYhjRBI/AAAAAAAACXw/1JjaAb77np4/s1600/hotm.jpg

― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 14:53 (eleven years ago) link

is there any correlation between hard/soft g gif ppl and hard/soft g algae ppl?

― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 14:59 (eleven years ago) link

who in the shit pronounces algae with a hard g?

― how's life, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 15:09 (eleven years ago) link

"jif" person, btw^

― how's life, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 15:09 (eleven years ago) link

who in the shit pronounces algae with a hard g?

http://www2.picturepush.com/photo/a/2426370/480/misc/ape-waving-hand-hg-clr.gif

― nagl dude dude dude (ledge), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 15:11 (eleven years ago) link

Lead Guh

― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 15:16 (eleven years ago) link

six months pass...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/04/jeopardy-gifs_n_4383490.html

― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 19:53 (eleven years ago) link

Jeopardy FTW

― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 19:54 (eleven years ago) link

I honestly don't care how the inventor wants it to be pronounced. The language will shake out its own pronunciation in the long run, and that will be with a hard "g".

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 20:11 (eleven years ago) link

anybody see that xmas ad for one of the department stores? the neighbors are "giffing out"? kudos to them for getting it RIGHT but i felt like was going crazy seeing it at all

― napgenius (goole), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 20:18 (eleven years ago) link

Not for me

xpost

― Le passé, non seulement n'est pas fugace, il reste sur place (Michael White), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 20:18 (eleven years ago) link

Adore Geopardy

― 乒乓, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 20:19 (eleven years ago) link

Trebek's the authority, I guess.

At any rate, I'll have to look at my local TV sedgeuhwool to see when that episode comes on.

― pplains, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 20:24 (eleven years ago) link

ten months pass...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B1Ig6lrIYAAtokp.png

― caucasity and the sundance kid (goole), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 21:41 (ten years ago) link

*Lives*

― 龜, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 21:46 (ten years ago) link

six months pass...

https://vine.co/v/O2pEEZnb6jD

― 龜, Saturday, 16 May 2015 14:53 (nine years ago) link

three years pass...

hmmmm, let me think

― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 04:31 (six years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/3OuZ5QS.gif

― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 04:32 (six years ago) link

Geoff

― Digital Squirts (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 04:35 (six years ago) link

― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 04:37 (six years ago) link

eleven months pass...

ATM = Automated teller machine

We don't say "ahh tee emm"

― i'd rather zing like a man, than FP like a coward (Neanderthal), Saturday, 17 August 2019 19:08 (five years ago) link

we don’t say “attum” either

― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Sunday, 18 August 2019 00:25 (five years ago) link

We say jay-peg instead of jay-feg, though.

― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Sunday, 18 August 2019 17:24 (five years ago) link

I see the point has been made.

― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Sunday, 18 August 2019 17:30 (five years ago) link

five months pass...

― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 21:48 (four years ago) link

how it is pronounced is however you pronounce it. how well you are comprehended is up to the listener.

― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 22:16 (four years ago) link

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