How Do You Pronounce ".gif" file acronym?

[mycoolkim]

gift for me

[lol911]

Gif as in "gift". If someone pronounces it as "jif" I wouldn't know what on earth they were talking about.

[dh5]

Gif as in Gif(t) :yes:

[5Horizons]

I guess it's technically jif, but I think that sounds dumb so I go with gif. As in gift, yo.

[SittingBull]

gifffff

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

The G is represents the word Graphics, which has a hard G (Gift).

[Electronic Punk]

Didn't Jif become Cif? :p

[Grunt]

Its not 'Jraphic Interchange Format'

that [if you were registered insane] would be .jif - which as far as I've come across, isn't a known image format.

its 'Graphics Interchange Format' with in turn, makes the acronym .gif.

so pronounce it with a G

[And Electronic Punk, Yes it did become cif.... I think jif was politically incorrect or something crazy like that]

[lnmnky]

I say gif(t)

I normally say words how they look. Even if it's wrong, or in another language.

Like Welsh towns, I will just pronounce as if they are English. Because I am English.

[Lee G. Veteran]

Jif

I've pronounced it like that since that thread about it last year or whenever it was.

[4CxbqFxVnstmA Veteran]

more intelligent people say it the way i do :D

[)-(orus]

The initial intent was for it be pronounced J-if, however I think most people pronounce it G-if. I always say J-if, as was intended, the format is so old now, tho, that the initial intended pronunciation has been lost in the mists of time.

The older among us probably get it right, while the young whipper-snappers among us will argue to the end that its supposed to be G-if with the hard pronunciation of G matching closer to the pronunciation of the word G-raphics.

[richardsim7]

Gift, Grenade, Gape, same thing!! :laugh:

-Rich-

Edited October 26, 2006 by richardsim7

[quadz0]

i pronounce it "dot gee eye eff"

i don't give a **** if its wrong, thats how I say it.

[Corris Veteran]

Gif, if I say jiff no one knows what I'm talking about, lol.

[bfoos]

Gif(t) and Gee you eye for me. I know that they weren't intended to be pronounced that way but I for one have never heard anyone say jif (other than referring to peanut butter or the old back in a jiff expression), and gooey just doesn't do it for me.

[duhk]

i never had spoken the word, have only typed it, but when i do type it i would be thinking jiff.

[Popcorned1]

Such arguments about how to pronounce a file extension. What's the world coming too? :no:

:rofl:

[Farstrider]

[elliot] Gif. I once met someone who said jiff and everytime they did it made me want to stick my foot in their ass.

:laugh:

This I found on the older thread (dd. Jan 2 2005) with the same subject matter and thought that it was appropriate in terms of my feelings on the subject! :)

[illicit]

Gif as in "gift"

[myNando]

I used to pronounce it "Jiff" but I've been pronouncing it like "Gift" for a long while now.

[dL]

Give.

dL

[Trong]

Yeah, I just say "dot G-I-F"...

:cool:

[+John. Subscriber¹]

Gif(t)

[Fred Derf Veteran]

Did some googling and found out that "Jiff" is actually the correct way to pronounce it.

But it seems that pronouncing it as "gif(t)" is more common.

Yeah, I had heard that before but I've still never heard anyone say jiff in real life.