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• norawibb@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And British people made English, but they don’t say anything right either.

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  • Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Little ironic… but ok.

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  • Butters@lemmywinks.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But the food is delicious.

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• mookulator@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I know he says it’s pronounced “jif”, but I just don’t care. It’s like “gift” without the t

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  • EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Let’s be honest here, English does not have that level of consistency. “Women” is pronounced with an “i” for christ sake

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    • tryptaminev@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Because the a in woman is pronounced the same way the e in women is pronounced…

      Probably that was originally introduced by some medieval swinger society, so they could say that they are faithful to their women and technically not be lying about it. When the church figured out they introduced the o as an i thing.

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      • Pyroglyph@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Because the a in woman is pronounced the same way the e in women is pronounced…

        woman = wum-en
        women = wim-in

        Yeah I’m gonna have to disagree with you there, chief.

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  • SimplyATable@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or like “gin” with an f?

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    • ericisshort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ginf? That’s a new one.

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      • late_night@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        No, you’re supposed to replace the letter, not add it, so “fin”

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      • SimplyATable@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Oh come on, you know what I mean

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    • LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Never. No.

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  • zefiax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s more like giant or gin or giraffe.

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    • Rodeo@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No, it’s more like give or get or girl.

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      • zefiax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Get is not even gi

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• MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This makes no sense. It stands for “Graphics Interchange Format”, do they pronounce it jraphics too?

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  • Perhaps@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How do you pronounce JPEG? Jay-feg?

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    • MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yep, I take your point

      Seems an odd choice in gif’s case still, as you can use the starting letter sounds from each word and it doesn’t sound weird.

      Not the same for jpeg. P by itself doesn’t make a ph sound.

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• nothing@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah, I always read it as “Jif” then came the correctness police of Reddit and I was bullied into “Gif” by guilt.

  And now some 8-40 years later, I feel anything but “Gif” is wrong. Help!

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  • Dee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Help!

    Absolutely not, I don’t say this often but those bullies did the right thing.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Do you pronunce it guilt or juilt? Okay bad question

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    • zefiax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How do you pronounce giraffe? or giant? or gin?

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    • Ryctre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I thought it was at least jood.

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• penguin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  He made the format, not English.

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  • zefiax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ya and in English, we pronounce things like giant, giraffe, gin, etc. with a “j” sound.

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    • penguin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Find me a closer English word than “Gift” that uses a J sound for the G

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      • thimantha@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Gin

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      • zefiax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        English doesn’t work that way. Man is the closest work to woman. Doesn’t mean you pronounce the “m” “a” “n” in the two words the same way.

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  • tryptaminev@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nobody made english, nor is a language static. It is an everchanging result of millions of people using and evolving it.

    A language that doesn’t change is dead, like latin is. So any rule of how something is supposed to be in a language is subject to time and place, but never absolute.

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    • penguin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s my point. If everyone pronounces a word a certain way, THAT is its correct pronunciation. The first person to say a thing doesn’t get to tell everyone else they’re wrong.

      Everyone started using the word “literally” to mean figuratively, so the official definition changed to mean either or.

      Everyone says GIF similar to gift, then that’s the proper pronunciation. Creator has no say.

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• circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Good thing word coiners don’t get full control over word usage.

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  • zefiax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They do though when they are right.

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• Tater291@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  He didn’t intend shit. He just wanted to watch the world burn!

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• MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t really give a fuck what he intended. If he wanted it to be pronounced JIF he should have named it that.

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  • zefiax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So how do you pronounce giraffe or giant or gin?

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    • Lorela@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How do you pronounce “graphic”?

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      • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        How do you pronounce “underwater?” (It’s the “u” in scuba)

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  • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Copyright concerns?

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• QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m sorry, but he waited 26 years to tell everyone how it’s pronounced… at this point you can go with the majority, or stick with however you want to pronounce it.

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• jscummy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Can you really just drop a hard G like that though? Thought that was only okay for them to say

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