Weird, you could totally spell G as jee. I wonder how many letters you can accurately spell without using the letter itself
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Perhaps@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The letter G itself is pronounced with the “j” sound.
I started out pronouncing GIF by saying the letters: “g-I-f.” It eventually shortens into “jif.”
Deuces@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Deuces@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is the best I can do. a,b,see,d,e,eph,jee,h,eye,ghey,caigh,l,m,n,o,p,cue,r,s,t,yew,v,double-you,ekes,whi,z
Perhaps@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Geigh
HangoverTuesday@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Graphics Interchange Format. Not Jraphics Interchange Format.
samus12345@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Joint Photographic Experts Group. Not Joint Potographics Experts Group.
zaph@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So you pronounce graphics as jraphics?
lanolinoil@lemmy.world 1 year ago
that’s a single word. When we make acronyms, they’re subject to the pronunciation rules of the new word they’ve become, not the word the letter is sourced from – This is pretty obvious if you think about it for a minute.
It’s NATO but we say atlantic It’s SCUBA but we say underwater
zaph@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I was addressing “The letter G itself is pronounced with the “j” sound.” because letters can make more than one sound.
lanolinoil@lemmy.world 1 year ago
right but they’re position relative to other letters form syllables and does have (some) rules. GIF GI-F, like Gi-raf-fe