GIF Proununciation

Report · Jul 11, 2016

EXACTLY. Now, I know what the creator of GIF said, but he's wrong. The acronym inherits its sounds from the sounds of the first letters of its constituent words.

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Report · Jul 28, 2016

Pariah Burke wrote:
So even CompuServe was pronouncing it "JIF" officially? Interesting. I sit corrected. I'm still going to call it GIFt for the afore mentioned reasons.

And your choice to do so is absolutely correct. I prefer one over the other but can accept the fact that others choose to have their images GIFt wrapped.

Gene

Report · Aug 07, 2016

Oh yes, the heady days of the web in the '90s. Page after page of animated JIFs on Ghee-ocities sites

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GIF Proununciation