JPEG

Somehow, I can tolerate "jpheg" much easier than the forsaken "jif."

It's pronounced like yiff. I have spoken.

It's pronounced Gif, with a soft G as in Graphics.

I don't give a fuck what the idiot creator thinks it should be pronounced as, I'll die on this hill with my honor intact, surrounded by the corpses of everyone who thinks Jif is referring to anything but peanut butter.

Helen is wearing socks with sandals. Helen don't give a single phuck.

GIF is pronounced GIF not because the G stands for Graphical, but because it is its essence. It is what is calls out to be... Called.

And because it's not peanut butter.

And for the same reason, JPEG is pronounced JFEG not because the P stands for Photographic, but because that is the expression of its true essence.

I just didn't know it before today.

Justice for JΦEG!

Coming from the jif camp myself, I’d just like to point out it’s jay-phej.

Gif is obviously pronounced like the g's in 'gorgeous'

do I look like I know what a "JphEg" is?

I just want a picture of a got dang hot dog

Honestly have never understood the gif debate. Words sometimes have multiple pronunciations. They're both fine.

GIF comes from the Old English word "gif," pronounced with a "y" sound.

So it's yif.

Git is now pronounced Jit.

JIT, as in the compiler architecture, is now pronounced Git.

If you have to spell it wrong to show how you pronounce it that should be a sighn

Guys.. guys... can we all just agree that it's pronounced gif and not gif?

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The J is pronounced like the J in Jesus (Spanish pronunciation)

All of this could be solved if English weren't a shit language with incoherent phonemes.

We should just go ahead and pronounce all acronyms the way their unabbreviated forms’ first syllable letters are said. Just ignore we treat individual letters differently than the words they came from.

The CIA should sound like “see ya” Department of Transportation “Duht” Internal Revenue Service “ears”

Etc.

Helen wears socks and sandals, and has divergent opinions. Helen needs to disappear in a landfill. Dispatching a team.

Next you’re telling me that LMFAO is called "ellem eff ayo" and not "le mfaao“

Say gift. Now what you're going to do next is leave out the T but enunciate the gif part the same way. Fuck you jif people!

Why don't you just pronounce it "gee-eye-eff"?

I love how much absolute war is going on in this thread 🤣

I just want to point out that Lin-Manuel Miranda has been advocating for peace between the hard and soft G clans for more than a decade.

Well shit.... I've been living a lie.

ITT: lots of people who are wrong.

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And PNG crew still reigns supreme!

Not how acronyms work but I like your fire.

Jannondorf

It's interesting debate to observe from my perspective as my native tongue has no different pronunciations for letters, they are always the same regardless of their placement in words. G is always pronounced the same, and so is P. (Spoiler: it's hard G and hard P).

This brought another thing in my mind about soft G. Let's take for example Gin, which is with soft G I believe (it's hard G here because there is only hard G). Then there is the acronym GT for Gin & Tonic. The question is, in English language countries, is the acronym pronounced jay-T instead of gee-T?