This is the thread where I say things and maybe other people say things too

**Freude am Fahren** · January 27th, 2019, 08:08 AM

At least we can all agree gif is pronounced with a soft G, right?

**dodint** · January 27th, 2019, 08:29 AM

It would if it was spelled 'jif', yeah.

**JoeW** · January 27th, 2019, 09:27 AM

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.

**Freude am Fahren** · January 27th, 2019, 06:14 PM

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.

**JoeW** · January 27th, 2019, 08:00 PM

Edit...The inventor was Steve Wilhite...jif is correct. Per his instructions.

**Dicknose** · January 27th, 2019, 09:41 PM

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!

**JoeW** · January 28th, 2019, 02:35 AM

We pronounce that one boo-wee.

**dodint** · January 28th, 2019, 06:56 AM

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.

**Freude am Fahren** · January 28th, 2019, 07:06 AM

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.

**dodint** · January 28th, 2019, 07:21 AM

Like gift?

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