Who killed Mr. Boddy in the study and with what?: the great debate topic™®

[ButlerBlockhead125]

nonnel how could you bring this chaos upon your thread

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[ShadowsfeaR]

you cant just disagree with how it is officially pronounced and build a solid case as to why you're more correct than the guy who literally named itthe guy said "it's named after the peanut butter" because the slogan was a pun
"choosy programmers choose gif" like that's why it's pronounced jif

Just because you wanted it to be a pun doesn't mean you can ignore the grammar rules of english.

[Nonnel]

soft g works fine with english tho

[Kimon²]

fun fact everybody who pronounces it gif had a role in killing tupac shakur

Just because you wanted it to be a pun doesn't mean you can ignore the grammar rules of english.

where does it say that there is a set way to pronounce acronyms anywhere? the closest thing to a correct pronunciation is to spell out the letters or, you guessed it, listen to what the creator named it. im tired of this flimsy ass "it's grammatically incorrect hurr" argument im gonna knock you guys the forget out

[Dreams_Of_Cheese]

Hard G sound. Developer is wrong. Sorry losers.

[Blockchip]

The creators say it's jif, therefore it is technically jif
I pronounce it gif though because

my opinion is wrong

[Kimon²]

the basis for pronouncing it gif is either to be a hardhead on purpose or to be a kewl rebellious kid who doesnt listen to the rulez

[Dreams_Of_Cheese]

the basis for pronouncing it gif is either to be a hardhead on purpose or to be a kewl rebellious kid who doesnt listen to the rulez

Hard G sound. Developer is wrong. Sorry losers.

[KickFlow]

I believe you can pronounce it both ways. Like Tomato. Some people say "tow may toe" and some say "ta mot oh." (even though I've never heard that way, you get the idea)


That being said the developer is loving handicapped.

[Foxscotch]

Just because you wanted it to be a pun doesn't mean you can ignore the grammar rules of english.

there's no legitimate grammatical reason that it couldn't be "jif"
it happens all the time. for example, "gist" is pronounced with a soft g, but "gill" is pronounced with a hard one
there's nothing even remotely wrong on a grammar level with pronouncing it with a soft g

however, the soft g sounds bad, so the hard g is better in my opinion
it really doesn't matter what the creator said, words are pronounced differently by different people even more often than english's grammar rules have exceptions

[ShadowsfeaR]

fun fact everybody who pronounces it gif had a role in killing tupac shakurwhere does it say that there is a set way to pronounce acronyms anywhere? the closest thing to a correct pronunciation is to spell out the letters or, you guessed it, listen to what the creator named it. im tired of this flimsy ass "it's grammatically incorrect hurr" argument im gonna knock you guys the forget out

The hard g /g/

is the most common pronunciation. It comes:

before a consonant (great)
before a back vowel (go, garden, get)
before a front vowel in most words of Germanic origin (girl, gift,...)
at the end of a word (frog)

The soft g /ʒ/

It is extremely rare at the beginning of a syllable. The only words I can think of at the moment are
genre [ʒɒnrə].
bourgeois [ˈbʊəʒwɑː]
which are both loan words from French that have kept the French sound /ʒ/.
/ʒ/ is a little more common at the end of a word, but there again we only find it in loan words from French (rouge, garage)

[Electrk.]

Just because you wanted it to be a pun doesn't mean you can ignore the grammar rules of english.

then I guess George is pronounced with a hard G sound

also since when does English follow its own rules?

"i before e except after c" unless it's their, neighbor, weird, reign, sleigh, etc.

[ShadowsfeaR]

then I guess George is pronounced with a soft G sound

I never said the soft G isn't part of the english language, you completely mis-interpreted my comment. Read my post above.

[Blocky943]

I have a better question: Why the forget does it matter?

[Dreams_Of_Cheese]

I have a better question: Why the forget does it matter?

I see you entered the gr8 D-b8 topic ill prepared.