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How do y'all say GIF? (lemmy.ml)
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[–] Dick_Justice@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

With a hard "guh" sound, because that's what I grew up with.

[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

JIF is peanut butter

GIF is Graphic Interchange Format

[–] jeremyparker@programming.dev 0 points 9 months ago

The creator of the Gradual Interface Forget wanted people to pronounce it with a J literally because he wanted it to use the name recognition of the peanut butter - and I don't exactly care about their profits or about copyright, but it's a bad reason.