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And do you find it odd and/or annoying when people say it the other way?

*Edit: Changed to thread title to avoid biasing the poll.

I've never met anyone who said "jiff," but I guess it would annoy me to hear it.

I find your title prejudicial.

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Just as long as it isn't crunchy then I have no preference.

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Heh, good point, Kaffis. Changed it now.

Hard g. Anything else is grounds for being burned at the stake.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

Soft G (also known as the right way).

I remember having this discussion on CompuServe in the early 90s.

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Hard G, because no real G is soft. Gnomesay'n?

Soft. Because I like peanut butter. It doesn't *annoy* me when other people say differently, but it often whizzes right by me, and I have to mentally back up and figure out what they're saying.

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"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

It's not my fault a bunch of computer programmers couldn't figure out how to pronounce their own file extension. If we gotta go to war, we'll go to war, but like Lenas said, any soft g isn't a real g.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

Like gift without the t.

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Holy shitsnacks!

The velar "g" doesn't have a common english language homophone, which is likely the reason the affricate "g" was chosen. Likewise, because English is so context dependent, the easiest way to avoid spoken confusion is phonetic separation from "gift".

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Hard g, but I could care less how others pronounce it (also bringing to mind the very, very few times I recall hearing Gif said out loud.)

I've said it both ways, and could not care less how other people say it..

I voted soft G just to be contrarian

I'm sorry maybe to many beers and I missed something, Is this about the G spot. Maybe Talya can interject soft or hard.

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Like the peanut butter.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

QFT

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Raell Kromwell

I used to be hard but now I'm soft.

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It happens to the best of men Mook, no worries. They make a pill for that now.

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Raell Kromwell

I've known for a couple decades that the correct pronunciation is like the peanut butter. But I still say it like gift minus t.

I also said "gib" with a hard g when Quake used the term a lot. Even though I knew full well it was a soft g like in giblets.

Those that hear it and don't care, they just don't care. Those that do, well, I go out of my way to increase their annoyance levels because they are getting annoyed at something trivial and pointless.

It's like continuing to call a form of animation "japanimation" around someone who flies of the handle over the term. (When they bring up the racist card, I make a point to put the emphasis on non racist terms, "japan...imation" and it just infuriates them more. Hilarious to see.).

Anyway, correct pronunciations of acronyms using English logic flies out the window because they are not English words. The pronunciation is determined by the creator. And arguments of "Graphics, what the G stands for, is a hard g" also fly out the window as well. Unless you want to change how you pronounce SCSI or ISA.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

Skuzzy and Eye Ess A

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Holy shitsnacks!

Scuzzy is the standard, but I believe the other is Eye-suh."

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

I've never heard anyone say eye-suh, but then again, I always thought PNG was just pee-en-gee until this thread. I've known about the official pronunciation of GIF since the Compuserve days, so it's always been "jiff" to me. Apparently I'm in a minority, because I never hear anyone say it the other way. I guess it just doesn't come up in conversation much to begin with.

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pee-en-gee
gift(-t)
jay-peg
scuzzy
pee-ess-dee
a-eye
em-peg
damage
ee-ex-ee
ee-pub
moby

Wait, it's not?

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"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades