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hard g.

It's not effing peanut butter. It's gorilla glue. 🦍

Paul, are you trying to start a war?

Gyfe

In Portuguese, my mother tongue, if after the “g” there’s a “i”, you should read it with the “j” sound. But I say it with a hard “g”. No idea why 🤔 😅

obviously with a j. Like how the letter g is pronounced

It's pronounced like the g in rough.

J and I'll die on this hill

Gggggggggggif

whichever one pisses off the youtube comments the most

Is this similar to “yogging” or a slight run 😊?

😇

jif but the j is pronounced the way it is in much of Europe, so its "yif". In Spanish speaking countries it's "hif"

Woke up to reading some fighting words on here.

It’s a soft G but TBH can we please just move past GIFs and do webp? Regards, Guy responsible for making many, many famous GIFs.

It rhymes with TIFF

different sound than either of those: zhif

GIF creator Steve Wilhite said it's "Jif" next you're going to tell me it's pronounced "gaypeg"

Any ol cursed text generator

Meanwhile I’ll gust jo gump in that lake at the bottom of a jorge. PS: Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken

Wen gif?

not gonna reply cuz I’m gonna get bullied off this platform if I do

Team J logging on, along with all German generals from Georgia

The way my eye twitches when anyone pronounces it JIF

You really need to watch this video. https://youtu.be/Nrk8sqZfsgI

J all the way

it's pronounced gif also btw I've noticed that people are asking for gifs for different reasons some want reactions/giphy/etc others (like me) want to be able to upload wip clips of things we're making

My one thing with gifs is if you implement them, convert them to mp4s or something first. GIF doesn't do any cross-frame optimization and the result is huge bandwidth wrecking files. Most gif sites convert them to mp4 for final presentation.

pictured: paul choosing violence today

it should be jif but society agreed to stray further from His light and settled on gif

with a g as hard as i am

jheef (french accent)

The GIF wars escalated quickly. Many never lived to see the GIFs they fought so hard to have implemented on the app. It was a bloody, senseless conflict, but in the end, it was decided that the word was pronounced “GIF.”

Hard G

Hard g is the only correct answer here.

pronounced it jiff since 1995, wasn't even aware of any alternate pronunciation until the recent big kerfluffle about it

Hard g

Somehow missed that this post was two years old, but the point still stands, so I guess I'll just embrace the embarrassment. 🤷‍♂️

Like 'ghee'

JIF!!!

the g in gif is pronounced like the g in gyro

Language evolves, either is great, but if there's one "right" way, it's the way that preserves meaning.Though I will definitely side with the hard G group if you decide that JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is pronounced Jay-Feg.

Unclear. I see that what’s his face thought it should be pronounced that way but it’s not clear if the full phrase was part of it or if that came later. I don’t see any attestations.

Only one right answer ☝️ and it’s ‘G’if as in gift 🎁😸

🤣🤣 No. No! You stop that right now! We came here to get away from this kind of toxicity. 😁😁

alf

Soft G, like gel and giraffe

Choosy users choose avif

I like to use both, to keep people on their toes

the g is actually silent

Hard g, the other one's a peanut butter in the canon

It's pronounced, "graphics interchange format."

This uy ifs!

i knew about webp but not some of these other formats. TIL!

I've seen polls on here with a bot I believe

I pronounce it Alf with a hard d I’m sorry This site made me this way I’m actually a very normal mom type

Paul please, this ruined my life on the other site. It's a hard g.

Everyone who says “j” is wrong, they mean “d”, or they’d be saying “yiff”. See? There’s the d right there: /d͡ʒ/

i have opinions https://waxy.org/2014/04/jif-is-the-format-gif-is-the-culture/

Sounds like you need to ship a polls feature first.

Neither. "Gee aye eff"

j. definitely jif.

gif as in “gift” without the t

Yassss

Many creators of popular works have garbage viewpoints. This is one of them.

Here, in Brazil, we pronouce with a hard G. It will be very strange hear a Portuguese speaking person saying 'jif'.

It's a word that's never really meant to be said out loud, like 'heteroscedasticity'.

Geef

It's fine! Anything is fine! Language is created by people and we can do what we want with it! Also I wrote an article applying corpus linguistics to why gif specifically has several pronunciations https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/69147/why-pronunciation-gif-really-can-go-either-way

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Hardest of Gs

Depends on whether you think it’s an initialism for “jraphics interchange format” or not

I heard the person who coined the term said it’s pronounced “jiff”… he is wrong.

jiff is like saying "baggle" yeurgh yuck enemies for life

It’s pronounced “Skiff” here

J all the way Paul.

It is hard “G” ‼️

por-que-no-los-dos.gif

Gesus Paul pick an easier argument.

And you thought ALF was going to destroy Bluesky. Let the GIF pronounce wars begin.

Skeefs

paulinho eu esperei duas semanas por um convite só????????? tô indo embora

G

It’s obviously with a “J” sound. Why is this even up for debate 🤔

I only think this because, funnily enough, there's a g in gif

Idc what the official creator says it just sounds better with the g sound it's not peanut butter

Hard g. And yes, I’m aware that this puts me at odds with the creator of the format and also common pronunciation rules. But dammit, I learned it with a hard g and I’m too old to change. Now get off my lawn

HARD G

g

It's pronounced biff, paul.

It’s more of a how it started how it’s going kind of an answer

That’s not how acronyms work. We do not pronounce the u in SCUBA like the u in “underwater”. We do not pronounce the i in PIN like the i in “identification”. We do not pronounce the a in NATO like the a in “Atlantic”.

well in Mexico is a soft 'g'

In Portuguese is pronounced ghif. Do not mess with Brazilians on line 🤣

gif as in gift without the t.

It's pronounced "gif".

Hard G for sure

It’s jiff, like Jesus

Since the G is the first letter in the acronym, which stands for graphics, it should be pronounced with a hard G.

Gif like gin and tonic 😎

I would like to post GIFs of Ginormous Giraffes Gingerly Gyrating. I think that should help clarify things.

HARD G. And I need gifs. The struggle is abundantly real.

yif