Gawd, this thread is Gilariuos.
Gawd, this thread is Gilariuos.
I'm not even a native english (or murrican) speaker, yet I still pronounce it (and think of it) as jif. It just doesn't make any sense to use a hard g in this situation.
Some people just have screwed up brains though, no helping it I'm afraid...
I didn't read pages 2 or 3 so I may be repeating someone, but giraffe starts with a g and sounds like it starts with a j so people can quit acting like a hard g is the only fathomable option.
I say gif with a hard g (like gift minus the t) but don't care if someone else says jif. I almost never use the word anyway.
It's always been pronounced with a J. Pronouncing it with a G is just too harsh, the pronunciation doesn't have to match the acronym; it's easier to change how you say something than it is to have an acronym that doesn't make sense. Jaguar Interchange Format just wouldn't make sense.
welcome to the internet OP.
Its a futile exercise, and also rather dumb, to attempt to demand a word be said a certain way by all. Language is often a very bottom-up system. The grass roots determine the direction of language and there's little the academics can do about it.
Its gif and he'll just have to live with it.
Oh wow. It's really not something I pronounce often, but being Danish, I've always thought of it as .gif.
But honestly, does it matter? It's hard to confuse it with something else.
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I always thought it was pronounced "jif" too. Just always seemed like it would be a soft g.
I'll start pronouncing it as jif as soon as Brits start to pronounce girls as jirls.
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