How Do You Pronounce ".gif" file acronym?

[Ironman273]

Popular or not, it's meant to be said the way the people that created it meant it to be said. I've never heard anyone pronounce it gif(t), but apparently there are a lot out there. Now that you know you've been pronouncing it wrong, accept it and move on.

[y0sh]

Jiff is correct, therefore Jiff.

[crimsonhead]

What would it take for me to start saying it Jif?

-Gif becomes a codeword for the intention to rape someone's daughter

[Jeston Veteran]

I say jif but I've had teachers that pronounced it either way, some say jif some say gif.

[Pupik]

Can any one find me a video clip of a person pronouncing gif, as "jiff"?

Voice isn't enough. I want to see his face when he does it :D

[Toology]

https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=265433

It's been done.

[Driph]

Since the beginning, ive pronounced it jiff.

[Joel]

Germ and giraffe are written with a g, do you pronounce them as gurm and ger-aff?

I don't pronounce "gift" as "jift", not do I pronounce "graphic" as "jiraphic", so what's your point? Do you say kanife or knife? Kaneel or kneel? Not all G sounds are like J you know. Frosted Flakes aren't "Jeeerate!"

I know a tech support/programmer/server-building guy who's a whiz at all things computers and makes a crap load of money doing it, and he says, "jigabyte". Doesn't make him right or wrong, but I know everyone here laughed when Doc Brown said, "1.21 Jigawatts?!?"

[someguy03]

ive never heard anyone say it like GIF(T). I've always heard JIFF

[RatherLargeBear]

look, stop arguing you are all wrong.

its pronounced bitmap.

so shut up!

:p

[chroniX]

I don't pronounce "gift" as "jift", not do I pronounce "graphic" as "jiraphic", so what's your point? Do you say kanife or knife? Kaneel or kneel? Not all G sounds are like J you know. Frosted Flakes aren't "Jeeerate!"

If you read my post fully, you would have seen my point. I was responding to someone who said they pronounce it as gif(t) b/c it's spelled with a g and not a j. I was just pointing out that there are words that begin with g but have a j sound. That's all.

[crimsonhead]

Yea I mean Ess See You Bee Aye is so much cooler than SCUBA.

It's pronounced Gooey.

Edited November 2, 2006 by Fred Derf

[Elementfire0666]

Yea one of my comp. science teacher was a lazy ass basterd and would pernounce just about every file acronym. His favorite or most used when talking would be URL... "Yurel" hed say. ANNOYING :angry: to here that every damn day.

[MrKuro]

it's pronounced..... "gif"

QTF . . it surely is :)

[Bawx]

..as in gift.

jay-peg

em-pee-three

bee-em-pee

ay-vee-eye

I pronounce things as they're literally spelled.

Yea I mean Ess See You Bee Aye is so much cooler than SCUBA.

It's pronounced Gooey.

Somethings you pronounce literally, some not. Gooey? That sounds moronic. It's GUI, [Jee-You-Eye].

[nvme]

it's jiff.. you silly people

[crimsonhead]

Somethings you pronounce literally, some not. Gooey? That sounds moronic. It's GUI, [Jee-You-Eye].

No Earl (URL) sounds moronic, Gooey (GUI) sounds creative. :whistle:

[Kraftman]

gift-style.

[nvme]

oh.. and gui is pronounced gooey

[Elementfire0666]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF

Scroll down to Pronunciation

ROFLROFLRFOL at the first few lines. Windows users or (the idiots that use computers) as they make it out to be say it like (gift) and the Mac users say it like (Jiff)

CHOOSY DEVELOPERS CHOOSE GIF!!! 0_o

Yea regardless to this it really doesn't matter how its pernounced. I just think personally (jiff) sounds better than saying it like (gift)

[The Angry Bunny]

I've always pronounced it jiff (and have always heard it pronounced as jiff). Just sounds better to me.

[WhoTheF]

g i f

thats what i say.. and i am so used to it.

"Okay let me save it as a dot g i f"

Well - thats me.

[Elementfire0666]

Really the only reason why we pernounce acronyms is because were a bunch of lazy basterds and we think saying jiff or gooey is easier than saying GEEE EYE EFFF or GEEE UUUU EYE and it may save us about half a second in our precious lives. Our language these days is so laxed its not funny. Go ahead and use any pernounciation you want. Neither is a right or wrong one but I tell you what is right... any pernounciation of an acronym is going to sound retarded none the less.

[John S. Veteran]

GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is an 8-bit-per-pixel bitmap image format using a palette of up to 256 distinct colors from the 24-bit RGB color space. It is definitely pronounced with a "G" sound and not "J"

QFT :yes:

[_bobcat_ Veteran]

If it was meant to be pronounced jif, it would be spelt that way in my opinion.

Did Americans come up with the word? They always seem to spell things exactly how they are pronounced.

To be honest I don't really care though. What is important is that when the word is said, as gif or jif, it can be understood what is being talked about.