It’s pronounced GIF.
Is there a "right" way to pronounce it? And why is it so complicated? •
Written with Molly Ruhl and Gretchen McCulloch. Gretchen's podcast has an episode all about this: lingthusiasm.com/post/180153994181/lingthusiasm-episode-26-why-do-c-and-g-come-in
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REFERENCES:
Buck, S. 2014. 70% of People Worldwide Pronounce 'GIF' With a Hard 'G'. mashable.com/2014/10/21/mispronounced-words-tech/
O'Leary, A. (2013, May 21). An Honor for the Creator of the GIF. New York Times. Retrieved from bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/an-honor-for-the-creator-of-the-gif/
Olsen, S. The Gif Pronunciation Page. web.archive.org/web/20200225141100/www.olsenhome.com/gif/
Baio, A. 2014. ‘JIF’ Is the Format. ‘GIF’ Is the Culture. medium.com/message/jif-is-the-format-gif-is-the-culture-af8673796c44
McCulloch, G. 2015. Why the pronunciation of gif really can go either way. www.mentalfloss.com/article/69147/why-pronunciation-gif-really-can-go-either-way
Dow, M. 2020. It's 'gif and gif': The english lexicon goes both ways. mcdowlinguist.github.io/2020/08/31/gif-pronunciation.html
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I realised after upload that I slipped up here: if you pay close attention, you can tell the way I pronounce GIF. Ah well! Also, subtitling this was an interesting job...
2:31
i cant tell what way you pronounce it
@Salutations YT! watch "Game Theory: Yes, PewDiePie. FIblock IS Broken" and you will understand.
Glad to see you are a proper English speaker
BAY-gel... BA-gel...
G I F
I'm french and british I say "jeef" in french but "gif" in english.
Wait a minute up to this point I didn't know that "LASER" is an abbreviation XD
It's actually pronounced "Scone".
Kinda looks like the British chandler bing.
Indonesian language as a phonetic "what kind of problem is that?"
Well that’s it then, I’m pronouncing it jpheg from now on
oh come on why do you have to blueball us so hard it's gif not gif duhhh
I would use the hard G, but choosy mothers choose ...
What
how i pronounced it was G-I-F in othere words i said each letter seperatly
jif pronouncers going to hell after calling ''god'' ''jod''
gif (jeef)
It's gif. Not jif. G's only sound like j's when followed by an e wich elongates them. Such as in geronimo, Germany, gel. Rare exceptions such as giraffe exist but that's due to the country of origin of the word. If your using proper English then it's pronounced gif not jif.
We usually read a consonant and the verb as one way some letter should be pronounced given how much a consonent sound can vary. And it terms of words that start with gi most of them are pronounced gee. Hence we pronouce any other gi as gi. Like "Gigh-gantic" or "Gin-jer" or "G-url"
I’m still going to pronounce it gif
Me: *Yif*
xif
How do you pronounce gimp
its DEFINITELY d3if. Think GIn, GIbberish, GIst, maGIc...
Me who says it as G I F. 👀👀
I must be the only one who calls it "The Graphics Interchange Format is a bitmap image format that was developed by a team at the online services provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite on 15 June 1987. It has since come into widespread usage ..."
I used to think that gif sounded better but gif is correct but after seeing this video I think that gif not only sounds better but is correct
It's GIF
i pronounce it Yif
Why are you 2:14? Who says i'm 2:05? You are 2:07.
It's pronounced guyf.
Very informative and instructional ..however, in my opinion, if the inventor says Jif...then Jif it is! Also, pronounciation is not a word...it is pronunciation! Same with so many people in the US saying Brushetta instead of "brusketta"...had a server correct me...haha...made me laugh!
It's G-I-F not Gi-I-F.
70% vs. 30%. It's not a landslide. Uhmmm mate? That kinda seems like a landslide there.
I instinctively say gif in English and jif in French...
Nah, it’s pronounced hif
personally i just say jee-eye-ef
French people, compared to English or other people, would tend to say “jif” because “gi” in French is pronounced “ji”. The other pronunciation would be written “gui”. It would be nice if the presence of a “u” between a “g” and an “i” would always determine the pronunciation
God could come down from heaven and say it's Jif and ppl would still be like: Ugh ok Jod
Solution is Turkish
no, it's pronounced dżjivf
The one thing I learned from this is that "laser" is an acronym... my whole life has been a lie
so is "radar"
The word Graphics has a hard G. So gif has a hard G too...
pronounce it as "yif" and it's over
it’s actually pronounced “Yiff”
3:00 ‒ the correct answer is of course... 'uuuuuu that's it, folks, debate is ended, the correct pronounciation is 'u
the superior way of saying it is obviously ʒif
I'm surprised more people say gif than ʤif
In old English, G can have the sound of Y Therefore, it's pronounced Yiff
2:14
It's not GIF, it's not JIF, it's G I F. Those are initials for Graphic Interchange Format. So it's supposed to be properly pronounced G,I,F.
Me: I pronounced G I F
I say Jif because my mom and sis said it is :c
Feel bad for ya bro
I always say whatever the creator says it is, that's what it is
is it Gib or Jib?
"there is no correct way of saying words, Words can't be dictated on you from upon high" *proceeds to logically analyze the pronunciation of gif in hope of being able to dictate from upon high*
I pronounce gif because it is seen like gift but without t
Big brain
its obviously pronounced "*The FitnessGram™ Pacer Test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues. The 20 meter pacer test will begin in 30 seconds. Line up at the start. The running speed starts slowly, but gets faster each minute after you hear this signal*."
i think people missed the part where we spell gif gif and not jif. if it was spelled jif, then we would say if. but since it's spelt Gif, just please say GIF unless you wanna type jif.
Its pronounced "jif" it doesn't matter who says it isn't, it just is.
Then we would be praying to JOD
Why are you guys arguing? I just pronounce it as Gif. Gif is gif.
Anyone who doesn’t think it’s pronounced GIF just leave. There is literally zero presidency for it being pronounced GIF.
It's pronounced gif
Kid pronouncers at the gates of heaven and calling god "jod"
like the name George tf
I really don't care. To me it's gonna be gif. And I pronounce Ibiza with a Z
I pronounced it like "gift" for years when I was younger until I realized there was no "t" in there
and of course, if you are Polish you pronounce laser as laser and not the lazer. at least gif is still gif. but dont ask how we pronounce jpeg. I dont tjing english has the sounds for it.
Gee Ai Eff
I'm German and pronounce it gif (the left one, the more common one)
I always say Gif, not Jif because of the word "gift"
In English I always say Jif because it sounds more normal in my native language I always say Gif because it sounds less odd
It's "jif" for *.GIF, "nykee" for athletic shoes and pineapple in pizza is "fire". (as the "kids" say.). IDC at this point, I'm 59 years old and no ones gonna change my mind.
God damn english phonology and orthograohy roles are pathetic.
i got a grammarly add before the video
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i’m saying d3iaief
wait scuba and laser are acronyms??????
Me in my computer science class thinking is it pronounced tuhple or toople just for my book to say tuple can be pro pronounced either way...
Honestly I switch between the two most times because I don't pay enough attention.
its JIFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
It’s pronounced yif
It's hard-g gif because its graphics.
I love it how 80 percent of people are angry at each other and then there is 20 percent of chads who just troll it
Just call it Jee Aye Eff
I had no idea Laser was an acronym.
I don't know about you, but I certainly hear "Yanny."
You okay?
If j already exists, then why g is pronunced both ways.
I say it as gee-ai-ef same as i do with any acronyms like ......my joke fell apart i can't think of anything funny that people don't know is an acronym.. apart from laser that's already mentioned in the video. Hm. It's sorta funny how i used to say it. I'm a geek to the bone and, well. I used to say it .gif. Dot-gif. Since that's what i see it written as. Also with a G since in finnish the alternate sorta doesn't work. And actually piste-gif but dot-gif since whatever.
I pronounce it yiff because I hate god
XD
Its pronounced Gif becauce the other way is stolen from j.
Ever since I was introduced to it I always read it as G-I-F lmao
It's pronounced covfefe.
I pronounce it as g then I then f g i f
I have a solution: let's pronounce it as "yif"
tl;dw: English has pronunciation issues
It's pronounced GIF. ok that helps very much
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i say GIF .
Please don't make the English language harder than it needs to be.
It's pronounced "geef."
gif has a g so I say g and then it has if so gif but g is not j it's not jif