Is it GIF or JIF? And other pronunciation questions...
I came across this site today which insists that GIF should be pronounced JIF (Period, no question):
http://www.olsenhome.com/gif/
(some of the comments are pretty funny!)
What do you think? Which pronunciation do you use? I thiink I use both, but most often the hard G... or maybe not. Now I'm thinking too hard about it so I don't remember what my natural inclincation is.
What other web acronyms do you have prounciation questions about? Jeeves had to teach me to say My SEQUEL and not My S-Q-L
demonhale posted this at 15:57 — 9th January 2006.
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Hmmm it made me think there... I use hard GIF and MyS-Q-L , but I usually spell-out the acronym...
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 17:41 — 9th January 2006.
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Some of those comments are absurd. Especially this one:
Girl? Get? Git? Gimp? Girth? Gecko? Geese?
Edit: whoops! The following comments say exactly that ^.
I pronounce GIF with a hard G. No rationalising it, that's how I felt like saying it when I first said it, so that's how I kept saying it.
I used to say MySQL until I encountered the proper 'sequel' pronunciation around the time of the MySQL dolphin naming contest ('Sakila').
JeevesBond posted this at 18:57 — 9th January 2006.
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Well Jif to me is still: http://www.orderpoint.co.nz/stock_img/2216450.jpg
So saying that would just be daft!
Wow, that banner is so 1990's!
Now this guys got a point, maybe we should invite all those people who've got nothing better to do to come and help with the mountains of work we've got going on at the moment.
a Padded Cell our articles site!
timjpriebe posted this at 19:33 — 9th January 2006.
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Personally, I use the soft g in GIF. My dad does the opposite. And I've also corrected people saying S. Q. L. instead of 'sequel' for SQL.
Of course, I have a friend who pronounces Linux with a long 'i' as in Linus, because the guy who created the Linux kernel is named Linus. Although I just discovered that Linus doesn't pronounce it that way.
http://www.jx90.com/linux.html
Tim
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Abhishek Reddy posted this at 20:58 — 9th January 2006.
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I feel like correcting people about this but every time I begin trying, it just seems so inane and insignificant. Partially, I'm sure, because it would require derailing whatever interesting conversation is going on.
I've heard some unusual versions of SQL pronunciation. One I heard recently is probably best approximated as 'squill'.
Busy posted this at 20:23 — 9th January 2006.
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I think I say with hard G - gif
What about .jpg ? said j-peg (from the outdated .jpeg)
I suppose some of it (maybe not these words) depends on where you come from, like here 'wh' is pronounced 'f' so whaka is said faka (whch is actually part of a place name - is Moari)
teammatt3 posted this at 22:29 — 9th January 2006.
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How do you guys say meta and beta?
I say beta like bay-ta (hard a) and meta like met-a (soft e)
demonhale posted this at 03:38 — 10th January 2006.
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bayta with a sqa "a" ... and meta with a straight "e" ... I used to say sequel for sql, a teacher corrected me once and I carried the S-Q-L around... Anyways i didnt dispute since i didnt know better that time... Why dont we make a quick proper pronunciation table,?
The Webmistress posted this at 13:08 — 10th January 2006.
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Definitely hard G in gif - agree with Liam that jif is and always will be a cleaning fluid!
Problem is that American's mispronouce words all the time!
Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....
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