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Posted: 2/25/2020 7:54:19 PM EST
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And Bruce Willis says Die Hard is not a Christmas movie. So what?  Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Inventor says jif. So in the spirit of “His momma call him Clay, I’m gonna call him Clay”, it’s jif. So what? 
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Posted: 2/25/2020 7:56:21 PM EST
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Let me settle this.
I think we all know or met somebody who's parents gave them a retarded or misspelled name. If you meet them, of course you call them Jif to their face. But you know that once they're not around, you and everyone else calls them how their name is really meant to be pronounced, Gif. For the record, both Jif and Gif sound retarded. Gif is just a little less retarded. |
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Posted: 2/25/2020 8:18:00 PM EST
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Let me settle this. I think we all know or met somebody who's parents gave them a retarded or misspelled name. If you meet them, of course you call them Jif to their face. But you know that once they're not around, you and everyone else calls them how their name is really meant to be pronounced, Gif. For the record, both Jif and Gif sound retarded. Gif is just a little less retarded. 
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Posted: 2/25/2020 8:26:29 PM EST
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Everything you've said is wrong and your explanation is beyond retarded.
The guy who created the file format called it "GIF" pronounced "JIF." Every normal person with a PC since the 90s...have called it a JIF. Only the truly dumbest of the millennial turds refer to it as a "GIFF." Really, my son...do a little research and ask somebody older than 20 years old if you have a question. Next thing you know, you'll be calling a medieval "knight" a k'nigget. (cue Monty Python) https://youtu.be/M9DCAFUerzs?t=119 I weep for that generation. |
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Posted: 2/25/2020 8:47:47 PM EST
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GIF is Graphics Interchange Format.
How do you pronounce GRAPHIC? /Thread. |
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Posted: 2/25/2020 9:03:40 PM EST
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GIF is Graphics Interchange Format. How do you pronounce GRAPHIC? /Thread. I have never heard a graphics professional pronounce it anything but jif. Worked in this industry for longer than digital formats, so that's quite a few people to sample from. The inventor agrees with us, too. /Continuation of stupid thread. |
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Posted: 2/25/2020 9:13:59 PM EST
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GIF is Graphics Interchange Format. How do you pronounce GRAPHIC? /Thread. A Federal Bureau of Investigation employee An FBI employee |
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Posted: 2/25/2020 9:16:26 PM EST
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How do you pronounce...
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Posted: 2/25/2020 9:17:49 PM EST
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LOL wrong thread!
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Posted: 2/25/2020 9:20:56 PM EST
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LOL wrong thread!
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Posted: 2/25/2020 9:30:08 PM EST
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How do you pronounce... https://i.pinimg.com/564x/cc/c1/c8/ccc1c8244edf6578487ed4204c3d9133.jpg |
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Posted: 2/25/2020 9:33:22 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: how do you pronounce gigahertz gimmick gilbert gizzard gibbous girly gift giggle giddy gird gill gild give gib etc Tell me again It's jif. Hey guys it's time to go to G(gim)YM class |
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Posted: 2/25/2020 9:35:18 PM EST
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How do you pronounce... 
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Posted: 2/25/2020 9:35:38 PM EST
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How do you pronounce... https://i.pinimg.com/564x/cc/c1/c8/ccc1c8244edf6578487ed4204c3d9133.jpg |
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Posted: 2/25/2020 9:36:32 PM EST
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Gee Eye Eff, I says.
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Posted: 2/25/2020 9:38:59 PM EST
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meh It's stands for graphic interchange format. Hard g is fine, but either pronunciation works. |
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Posted: 2/25/2020 9:40:26 PM EST
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The word "gift" is the closest word to GIF, and it has a hard G. |
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Posted: 2/25/2020 9:45:36 PM EST
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But how do you pronounce giraffe? Geronimo? Ginger? Giant? Gym? Tell me again It's jif. Hey guys it's time to go to G(gggg)YM class Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: how do you pronounce gigahertz gimmick gilbert gizzard gibbous girly gift giggle giddy gird gill gild give gib etc Tell me again It's jif. Hey guys it's time to go to G(gggg)YM class |
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Posted: 2/25/2020 9:46:38 PM EST
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See my post directly above yours. CIFS is and abbreviation of Common Internet File System. However it is, and only is, pronounced ‘sifs’. There is no rule that says an acronym must be pronounced with the hard or soft sound of it’s represented word. ETA: read your other post...code monkeys are illiterate.  ok.Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: GIF is an abbreviation of Graphical Image File Format. How is the G in "Graphical" pronounced? That should determine the pronunciation of the GIF acronym. CIFS is and abbreviation of Common Internet File System. However it is, and only is, pronounced ‘sifs’. There is no rule that says an acronym must be pronounced with the hard or soft sound of it’s represented word. ETA: read your other post...code monkeys are illiterate. ok.JK I’d say See Eye Eff Ess probably. Like FAL - I say Eff Ay Ell.
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Posted: 2/25/2020 9:47:05 PM EST
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GIF is Graphics Interchange Format. How do you pronounce GRAPHIC? /Thread. It should be griff by that logic |
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Posted: 2/25/2020 9:48:23 PM EST
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How do you pronounce... https://i.pinimg.com/564x/cc/c1/c8/ccc1c8244edf6578487ed4204c3d9133.jpg |
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Posted: 2/25/2020 9:50:06 PM EST
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So you give JIFts for Christmas? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Quoted: how do you pronounce gigahertz gimmick gilbert gizzard gibbous girly gift giggle giddy gird gill gild give gib etc Tell me again It's jif. Hey guys it's time to go to G(gggg)YM class |
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Posted: 2/25/2020 10:06:07 PM EST
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No i give gifts because the t after makes it a completely different God damn word. You go to gim class?? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Quoted: how do you pronounce gigahertz gimmick gilbert gizzard gibbous girly gift giggle giddy gird gill gild give gib etc Tell me again It's jif. Hey guys it's time to go to G(gggg)YM class |
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Posted: 2/25/2020 10:15:48 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: you mean you jiv jifts jod jammit. |
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Posted: 2/25/2020 10:33:02 PM EST
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GIF is Graphics Interchange Format. How do you pronounce GRAPHIC? /Thread. After all, they deal with Aeronautics. And have you ever gone SCUBBA diving underwater? This entire thread has turned into a SNAFUH. 
*Edited to quote the correct person.*
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Posted: 2/25/2020 10:35:29 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: “Gorgeous” has a hard “G”. Also there’s a hard “D” in my pants. 
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Posted: 2/25/2020 10:55:56 PM EST
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How do you pronounce... https://i.pinimg.com/564x/cc/c1/c8/ccc1c8244edf6578487ed4204c3d9133.jpg |
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Posted: 2/25/2020 11:17:02 PM EST
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And Bruce Willis says Die Hard is not a Christmas movie. So what? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Inventor says jif. So in the spirit of “His momma call him Clay, I’m gonna call him Clay”, it’s jif. So what? |
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Posted: 2/25/2020 11:39:01 PM EST
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Gee Eye Eff, I says. |
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Posted: 2/25/2020 11:40:49 PM EST
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“Gorgeous” has a hard “G”. Also there’s a hard “D” in my pants. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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How do you pronounce... https://i.pinimg.com/564x/cc/c1/c8/ccc1c8244edf6578487ed4204c3d9133.jpg 
You sir won the internet for the night, congrats. |
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Posted: 2/25/2020 11:42:31 PM EST
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You sir won the internet for the night, congrats. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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How do you pronounce... https://i.pinimg.com/564x/cc/c1/c8/ccc1c8244edf6578487ed4204c3d9133.jpg
You sir won the internet for the night, congrats. |
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Posted: 2/25/2020 11:45:18 PM EST
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I wonder if his hard D is because the G in gorgeous goes both ways? Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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How do you pronounce... https://i.pinimg.com/564x/cc/c1/c8/ccc1c8244edf6578487ed4204c3d9133.jpg
You sir won the internet for the night, congrats. |
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Posted: 2/25/2020 11:49:56 PM EST
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In this instance it is a hard G. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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How do you pronounce... https://i.pinimg.com/564x/cc/c1/c8/ccc1c8244edf6578487ed4204c3d9133.jpg
You sir won the internet for the night, congrats. |
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Posted: 2/26/2020 12:43:34 AM EST
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mags/clips  |
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Posted: 2/26/2020 1:01:21 AM EST
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FFS every dam jif commercial I've ever seen since I quit shittin in a diaper called it jif not some gay ass hard g gif shit. I could see michelle obama or chelsea clinton saying gif.
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Posted: 2/26/2020 1:40:46 AM EST
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FFS every dam jif commercial I've ever seen since I quit shittin in a diaper called it jif not some gay ass hard g gif shit. I could see michelle obama or chelsea clinton saying gif. |
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Posted: 2/26/2020 1:50:21 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Everything you've said is wrong and your explanation is beyond retarded. The guy who created the file format called it "GIF" pronounced "JIF." Every normal person with a PC since the 90s...have called it a JIF. Only the truly dumbest of the millennial turds refer to it as a "GIFF." Really, my son...do a little research and ask somebody older than 20 years old if you have a question. Next thing you know, you'll be calling a medieval "knight" a k'nigget. (cue Monty Python) https://youtu.be/M9DCAFUerzs?t=119 I weep for that generation. And those of us with Macs were the ones who created all the GIFs you saw when you launched Mosaic on your little Windows box. I, along with tens of thousands of other in my profession, created all those graphical interactive kiosks, laserdiscs and CD-ROMs with Hypercard, Macromedia Director (Lingo) and Authorware, and then migrated our creative work to the web in the early 1990s. In all that time, I heard the term GIF about a million times (even from PC geeks) and heard the term JIF exactly ONCE, and that person was immediately corrected by everyone within earshot. Everybody at Adobe calls it GIF. Only about one in 100,000 people call it a JIF. But I believe in individual rights. Use the stupid pronunciation if that makes you happy. |
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Posted: 2/26/2020 1:53:08 AM EST
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Inventor says jif. So in the spirit of "His momma call him Clay, I'm gonna call him Clay", it's jif. |
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Posted: 2/26/2020 2:03:33 AM EST
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Giff sounds retarded. I have never heard a graphics professional pronounce it anything but jif. Worked in this industry for longer than digital formats, so that's quite a few people to sample from. The inventor agrees with us, too. /Continuation of stupid thread. Only one person in all those years (a non-graphics intern) called it a JIF. Everybody else has always called it a GIF. I made 14 online banner ads today after talking to the site developers in California, who gave me the size specs and told me they had to be saved as GIFs. |
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Posted: 2/26/2020 7:11:09 AM EST
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I've worked in the graphic design industry since the mid 1970s. And I'll wager there are more graphics professionals here in Chicago alone than there are in your entire (and huge) State. Only one person in all those years (a non-graphics intern) called it a JIF. Everybody else has always called it a GIF. I made 14 online banner ads today after talking to the site developers in California, who gave me the size specs and told me they had to be saved as GIFs. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Giff sounds retarded. I have never heard a graphics professional pronounce it anything but jif. Worked in this industry for longer than digital formats, so that's quite a few people to sample from. The inventor agrees with us, too. /Continuation of stupid thread. Only one person in all those years (a non-graphics intern) called it a JIF. Everybody else has always called it a GIF. I made 14 online banner ads today after talking to the site developers in California, who gave me the size specs and told me they had to be saved as GIFs. |
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Posted: 2/26/2020 7:22:53 AM EST
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Bunch of cunning linguists up in this thread.
Or maybe cunty linguists. However it doesn't matter what the creator says, once out in the public purview most people pronounce it Gif. Jif sounds stupid. |
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Posted: 2/26/2020 7:23:43 AM EST
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And yet everyone continues to ignore other acronyms that are pronounced differently than their base words.
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Posted: 2/26/2020 7:32:34 AM EST
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It's jif.
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Posted: 2/26/2020 8:28:15 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I think you missed the point of Jif saying the peanut butter is called jif (like jiffy) and the animated pictures are called gif (like gift). Jif is partnering with GIPHY, a GIF search engine, to "put a lid on this decade-long debate": Both GIF and the peanut butter are pronounced "Jif." https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/02/25/business/jif-gif-peanut-butter-trnd/index.html |
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Posted: 2/26/2020 9:02:50 AM EST
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Actually, you've got that wrong. Jif is confirming that it's pronounced the same as the peanut butter. Jif is partnering with GIPHY, a GIF search engine, to "put a lid on this decade-long debate": Both GIF and the peanut butter are pronounced "Jif." https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/02/25/business/jif-gif-peanut-butter-trnd/index.html Jif said it their statement: "If you've ever called a .GIF a Jif®, we forgive you," "At GIPHY, we know there's only one Jif and it's peanut butter. If you're looking for all the GIFs, there's only one GIPHY," said Alex Chung, founder and CEO of GIPHY, in a press release. "If you're a soft G, please visit Jif.com. If you're a hard G, thank you, we know you're right. Whether you like your Gs hard or soft, let's all share some fun and let peanut butter unite us in saying GIF and eating Jif." The Gif jar even says "Hard G" on it. That's what you get for reading CNN.
ETA: Irony of the whole thing is that the pronunciation was tied to the peanut butter. “The creator of the GIF image format, Steve Wilhite of CompuServe, when deciding on the pronunciation, said he deliberately chose to echo the American peanut butter brand, Jif, and CompuServe employees would often say ‘Choosy developers choose GIF(jif)’, playing off of Jif’s television commercials. If you hear anyone pronounce GIF with a soft G, it’s because they know something of this history.” Some marketing person at Jif came up with a ploy to sell peanut butter...and it worked. |
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Posted: 2/26/2020 9:09:12 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Sorry bro...CNN is wrong (SHOCKER). Jif said it their statement: "If you've ever called a .GIF a Jif®, we forgive you," "At GIPHY, we know there's only one Jif and it's peanut butter. If you're looking for all the GIFs, there's only one GIPHY," said Alex Chung, founder and CEO of GIPHY, in a press release. "If you're a soft G, please visit Jif.com. If you're a hard G, thank you, we know you're right. Whether you like your Gs hard or soft, let's all share some fun and let peanut butter unite us in saying GIF and eating Jif." The Gif jar even says "Hard G" on it. That's what you get for reading CNN.
I just happened to read the article because it was on Bing's front page, and lo and behold, CNN was wrong!
My apologies for not checking who I was quoting first. 
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Posted: 2/26/2020 9:12:50 AM EST
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That is hilarious!
I just happened to read the article because it was on Bing's front page, and lo and behold, CNN was wrong!
My apologies for not checking who I was quoting first. 
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Posted: 2/26/2020 9:38:29 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: How do you pronounce “Graphic”, which the “G” in GIF is for? And don’t you effing say Jraphic |
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Posted: 2/26/2020 9:39:15 AM EST
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buttery smooth
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Posted: 2/26/2020 9:46:00 AM EST
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But it is an initialism. Say the letters G I F. Sounds like JIF. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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