Already examples in this thread... How about AWOL? (Absent without leave)
It's Ey-Wall instead of following absent's pronunciation.
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Whose fault is it that people think the G in GIF is pronounced like Give instead of Gin?
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It's Ey-Wall instead of following absent's pronunciation.
Peace was never an option.
I've never met anyone in real life who says jif.
there are three holy perfect threads that cause division and are hilarious:
1. gif pronunciation
2. tipping
3. whether or not it's okay to brake-check people who tailgate
and a fourth optional one:
is a hot dog a sandwich?
There's a few already posted here in the thread in which the first or later letters of the acronym do not follow the pronunciation of the words they're derived from. It's common for a company or format inventor to make the acronym sound different than the words that inspired them to make the acronym.
IMAX or AWOL or ASCII
There's many and they are often decided by the company or inventors.
Dywane Wade spells his name wrong and I would say that to his face.
Abcde is an idiotic name and why her parents saddled her with it is a mystery to me.
Hard g all the way. Usually I'm all for the inventor making up the name but that boat has sailed decades ago.
Abcde is an idiotic name and why her parents saddled her with it is a mystery to me.
Hard g all the way. Usually I'm all for the inventor making up the name but that boat has sailed decades ago.
yea if you came to me and said hey want to see this cool jif you found i would ask you why i would care about seeing your peanut butter.
Error 404 | Jif
www.jif.com
They're not consistent. In 2013 they did promos about GIF being pronounced Jif.
They only switched stances now for a promo with a meme website.
Using AWOL as any kind of example is weak nonsense considering the alternative is a very apprehensive wrong sounding tongue trippy approach. Ah-woll. Often an acronym's pronunciation is simply decided by how easy it is to say. Gif is one of those examples as jif is the choice of wrong-brains.
Its a hard G. Escape into space if you think otherwise.
Its a hard G. Escape into space if you think otherwise.
Joint
Photographic
Experts
Group
So is it J-PH-EG now? Because The P in photographic is not a hard P. Acronyms can be pronounced differently than the words the acronym represents.
This passage from the Bible and repeated in the Bayeux Tapestry settled it in the 14th century at the Council of Dos. Let us move away from this nonsense path.
The battle's won before it began.
The creator is himself deluded.
A Graphic format was the plan
The word has been of Jay denuded
To think th' other sound is madness
A nonsense word 'tis just a lark
We live in god's light not in sadness
And never in Jiraffic Park
The battle's won before it began.
The creator is himself deluded.
A Graphic format was the plan
The word has been of Jay denuded
To think th' other sound is madness
A nonsense word 'tis just a lark
We live in god's light not in sadness
And never in Jiraffic Park
Graphics Interchange Format. He's a computer programmer not a linguistics expert. Just because you invent something doesn't give you the right to claim rights over how it's pronounced. Words belong to the people and the collective have decided how graphics is pronounced.
Giraffe
Gina
Giant
Ginger
Gin
Gibberish.
Etc etc
What is your argument?
Do people in this thread go up to George and Ginas and tell them their names are hard Gs?
It's not that we didn't like it. We pronounce it the way that seems most appropriate. The way doesn't require you to put (jif) in parentheses to get the average person to pronounce it how you want us to.
Only because we know how many degens say it incorrectly.
Good folk spell out acronyms at first. When you first encountered "GIF" you said "G-I-F" because you're not a rube. "G" is pronounced "jee." When you eventually move to the phonetic shorthand it then became "jif."
If you followed any other progresion you're a bad person and should feel bad.
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This isn't equivalent to pronouncing GIF as jif.
In IMAX, the letter is pronounced first before the rest of the word(acronym?), if we pronounced GIF in a similar way, it would be "Jee If".
I don't actually have any idea where you're going with ROM.
Ih-muks sounds weird, eye-max sounds like what the brands going for. Lasser sounds german. Next.
Perhaps you missed the argument that ends the conversation 🤣
Graphics
Interchange
Format
It's not Jraphics.
like Mitt ROMney.
ive literally never heard it pronounced as anything other than that.
Perhaps you missed the argument that explains why this isn't so clear cut.
Joint
Photographic
Experts
Group
Is it JFEG then?
TIL NASA is pronounced Nesah and not nahsuh
We must protect the sanctity of sounds of the letters of the acronym u see
Yes we've reached the strawman phase!
I never get to watch these threads devolve in real time. Please continue.
