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January 27th, 2019, 08:08 AM
#5021
Director
At least we can all agree gif is pronounced with a soft G, right?
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January 27th, 2019, 08:29 AM
#5022
Administrator
It would if it was spelled 'jif', yeah.
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January 27th, 2019, 09:27 AM
#5023
Severed Member
Yeah I do the hard G simply because the word the G stands for is pronounced with a hard G.
Otherwise only choosy mothers would choose the peanut butter version.
Last edited by JoeW; January 27th, 2019 at 09:30 AM.
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January 27th, 2019, 06:14 PM
#5024
Director
Or the guy who invented the damn thing.
The "it's a hard g, because graphics is a hard g" was just made up to justify a wrong pronunciation.
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January 27th, 2019, 08:00 PM
#5025
Severed Member
Edit...The inventor was Steve Wilhite...jif is correct. Per his instructions.
Last edited by JoeW; January 27th, 2019 at 08:04 PM.
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January 27th, 2019, 09:41 PM
#5026
buoy
Had a surf carnival at the beach this weekend and one of my American students got very worried when told the boat race was "out and around a buoy".
They were buoyed to find out no kids were harmed!
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January 28th, 2019, 02:35 AM
#5027
Severed Member
We pronounce that one boo-wee.
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January 28th, 2019, 06:56 AM
#5028
Administrator
Inventing a file format does not give someone command to change the phonetics that make up a shared language. This isn't a Porsh/Por-shuh situation.
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January 28th, 2019, 07:06 AM
#5029
Director
Acronyms do not have to be pronounced based on the pronunciation of the words that make them up. That is actually made up garbage. NASA, POTUS, ATM, NATO, SCUBA
And if we're talking about rules (which is kinda dumb in English, since every rule has about a million exceptions). g's are pronounced soft if followed by i, e, or y. Gin, Engine, Genie, Gym.
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January 28th, 2019, 07:21 AM
#5030
Administrator
Like gift?
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