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| KickFlow:
--- Quote from: ThatDarkNinja778 on March 27, 2015, 03:22:57 PM ---I always just pronounced each letter. --- End quote --- Now that's just inefficient. |
| otto-san:
--- Quote from: The Resonte! on March 27, 2015, 03:21:09 PM ---actually i do --- End quote --- this is the great debate topic............... 4real tho http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_and_soft_G#English --- Quote ---In English orthography, the pronunciation of hard ⟨g⟩ is /ɡ/ and that of soft ⟨g⟩ is /dʒ/; in a number of French loanwords, such as rouge and genre, soft ⟨g⟩ is /ʒ/. In word roots of Greco-Latinate origin, the soft ⟨g⟩ pronunciation occurs before ⟨i e y⟩ while the hard ⟨g⟩ pronunciation occurs elsewhere. [2] In words of Germanic origin, and loans from other sources, the hard pronunciation may occur before ⟨i e y⟩ as well (as in get and gill). --- End quote --- so this raises the question..................... ...........................wh at is the etymology of "GIF"........... also this is hilariously probably the most heated debate ever in this extremely serious topic lol |
| hodot:
it's gif |
| blueblur121:
--- Quote from: otto-san on March 27, 2015, 03:25:11 PM ---4real tho http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_and_soft_G#English so this raises the question..................... ...........................wh at is the etymology of "GIF"........... --- End quote --- --- Quote from: wikipedia ---The Graphics Interchange Format (better known by its acronym GIF /ˈdʒɪf/ or /ˈɡɪf/) --- End quote --- Well stuff. |
| sir dooble:
--- Quote from: Foxscotch on March 27, 2015, 02:25:00 PM ---OSHA, for example, is pronounced "oh-shuh" it stands for "Occupational Safety and Health Administration" "occupational" starts with an "ah", not an "oh"it's not really a compromise --- End quote --- That's only valid if you're using an American accent, it seems. http://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/british/occupational I would definitely pronounce it with the British English sound, with an 'Oh-k" sound, in which case "Oh-shuh" makes sense. I actually wouldn't have even imagined that anyone pronounced this with an "ah" sound. I was really confused by your comment so I had to google it. |
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