How do you say .gif?

[Danp]

How do you say the file extension .gif? I say it the normal way, but my colleague says 'jif' !

[Norphy]

Gif with a hard "Guh" sound I suppose!

[synaesthesia]

With a hard G here too. Jif sounds like a cleaner.

[Danp]

With a hard G here too. Jif sounds like a cleaner.

 

Exactly, although its now Cif

[Mako]

"Gee to the eye to the eff".

 

No, gif with a hard "g" here, also.

[laserblazer]

Jif like the cleaner.

[korifugi]

Gif with a hard "g" for two reasons...

 

1) Jif is a cleaning fluid

2) My users'd only start getting confused and probably start referring to .jpgs as "Jiff-Pegs", and that'd only make me reach for the clue-bat.

[Diello]

Gif here too... if it was meant to be pronounced Jif then they'd have made the extension .jif!!!

[AngryTechnician]

Hard G. If you want a reason to beat people with, point out it stands for Graphics Interchange Format, and ask if they can pronounce Graphics with a soft G.

[localzuk]

I say Gif with a hard G, but its supposed to be gif with a soft g. There's even an informational website about it... The GIF Pronunciation Page

[JJonas]

Hard g - Graphics Interchange Format

[korifugi]

I say Gif with a hard G, but its supposed to be gif with a soft g. There's even an informational website about it... The GIF Pronunciation Page

 

Yes but the link also states the following: (which states I'm wrong in my pronunciation - but I'm going to continue being wrong)

 

In the years since, a debate has been raging as to the correct way to pronounce "GIF": like "jif" as in the peanut butter, or with a hard 'g' as in "gift"

 

Jif? Peanut butter?

 

It's cleaning fluid - not peanut butter!

 

 

 

 

Now I'm off to buy a blummin' Marathon Bar

[localzuk]

You're all wrong! Jif is lemon juice!!

[Pete10141748]

Defiantely with a hard "G".

 

And for edilble Jif from the good ol' US of A, see here! Jif (peanut butter) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[JJonas]

You're all wrong! Jif is lemon juice!!

 

Jif is cleaner in the same way Snickers is Marathon

[danbuntu]

The GIF Pronunciation Page

that is all

[Garacesh]

I try to say gif, but occasionally slip up and say jif.. Feels bad man D:

[elsiegee40]

Hard g for 'Graphics'. Guh - i - fuh

 

Jif is lemon juice and cleaner (even though I know that's called Cif (Sif?) now.

[tech_guy]

Never mind .gif - what about really important things like PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS - how the hell do you pronounce that!?

 

(It's a lung disease caused by breathing in particles of siliceous volcanic dust fyi).

Edited May 4, 2012 by tech_guy

[elsiegee40]

Never mind .gif - what about really important things like PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS - how the hell do you pronounce that!?

 

You don't!

 

(It is that volcano in Iceland isn't it?)

 

Show off!

[Mako]

Never mind .gif - what about really important things like PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS - how the hell do you pronounce that!?

 

New-mon-oh-ult-rah-mike-row-skop-ic-sill-ee-coh-vol-can-oh-con-eye-oh-sis.

[CHR1S]

Hard G. If you want a reason to beat people with, point out it stands for Graphics Interchange Format, and ask if they can pronounce Graphics with a soft G.

 

Wouldn't that sound like "jiraphics interchange format" sounds very zoological!

 

Oh and Bob Berry sounds like a moron, Or is that Hoh Herry? Im confused!

Edited May 4, 2012 by CHR1S

[Garacesh]

New-mon-oh-ul-trah-my-crow-skop-ic-sill-ee-coh-vol-cay-noh-con-ee-oh-sis.

 

Fixed that for you

[TheMan100]

I vary, sometimes I call it 'jif' or 'G.I.F'

[SteveBentley]

It's Gif with a hard G. JIF is the "JPEG Image Format" and something very different.

 

JPEG - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia