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OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I may sound haughty and knowledgable when I say JiF then, but between just you and me, I didn’t know a damn thing about this and just decided to say it this way in my brain for reasons that remain unclear.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Me too. I just always said it with a soft G because my brain told me that’s how it was pronounced.

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  • OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Strange that I never got a notification for this. Hm.

    I’ve always pronounced it that way for whatever reason, and when I learned that was the correct way I was very high and mighty, lol

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• MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oooh, that’s how grammar works in English language. Okay, so me as a developer of some obscure thing from this point forward are instructing everyone to pronounce “home” as “hume”, since that’s how you pronounce “o” in “tomb”. I decided that solely because my software is loosely related to the meaning of the word. K thx bai.

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  • OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Did you invent the word home? No? So you don’t get to decide how to pronounce it.

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    • MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Neither did the author of graphic format. GIF is not a word, but initialism, like NSA, FBI, NASA, IBM, etc. And there are specific rules how they are read and pronounced.

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      • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        NASA is an acronym, not an initialism. And guess how the last letter of NASA is pronounced versus how the A in the corresponding word is pronounced. Ah vs Uh.

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      • OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        O.k.

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  • halm@leminal.space ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wait till you hear about ghoti…

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    • MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Haha, good one!

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• carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes but actually no

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• irmoz@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Was it a gift?

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  • OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, from a gyrating genie named George.

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• AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh yeah? Well lick my gargantuan gorilla gonads.

  (I’m actually team jif but can’t help myself)

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• AnarchistsForDemocracy@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Life is all about jif and dake.

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• Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Good god Gordon go gag a gator

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• KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  technically starts with the D sound

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  • OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Now you’re just getting crazy

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