Poll: How do you pronounce gif?

[pinotgrig]

I swear a friend pronounces this wrong. He doesn't believe that my way is correct.

[stephm0188]

I know it's supposed to be pronounced like the peanut butter, but I refuse. In my head, it's a g sound.

[sjh722]

jif, like the peanut butter

[rootbeerfloat]

Like jiffy, but it took a lot of practice.

[satsuma]

Jif.

[SJ]

SS- I do not say this word out loud.

[havarti]

OOOO! OOOO!! Special snowflake!  Hard g publicly so I don't look like a fool, j in my head (because I really am a fool).

[pinotgrig]

These results are not to my liking so far. Lol

[rugbywife]

I want to know what the 'right' way supposedly is.

[havarti]

Jan 14, 2015 16:01:09 GMT -5 pinotgrig said:

These results are not to my liking so far. Lol

www.cnn.com/2013/05/22/tech/web/pronounce-gif/

howtoreallypronouncegif.com/

[niq]

The same way I pronounce "giblets".



But for serious, the official pronunciation is wrong.

[rugbywife]

Whatever, I pronounce it wrong.

I lived in Qatar and apparently still say it wrong, which I didn't know until last week.

[pinotgrig]

Jan 14, 2015 16:23:51 GMT -5 rugbywife said:

Whatever, I pronounce it wrong.

I lived in Qatar and apparently still say it wrong, which I didn't know until last week.

I'm scared to ask, but how is it supposed to be pronounced?

And lolol.

[rugbywife]

Jan 14, 2015 16:27:32 GMT -5 pinotgrig said:

Jan 14, 2015 16:23:51 GMT -5 rugbywife said:

Whatever, I pronounce it wrong.

I lived in Qatar and apparently still say it wrong, which I didn't know until last week.

I'm scared to ask, but how is it supposed to be pronounced?

And lolol.

So…I have always pronounced it Qatar, or Cat-ar,…it should be pronounced more like Cutter...

[spk926]

I know jif isthe correct way but I choose to still say gif. Mostly it's in my head thoigh because my conversations in person don't typically lead to talking about gifs.

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[cricketwife]

Jan 14, 2015 16:29:55 GMT -5 rugbywife said:

Jan 14, 2015 16:27:32 GMT -5 pinotgrig said:

I'm scared to ask, but how is it supposed to be pronounced?

And lolol.

So…I have always pronounced it Qatar, or Cat-ar,…it should be pronounced more like Cutter...

Lol. I always say "cutter" but then nobody knows what I'm talking about until I say ca-TAR. 

[AlpineSlide]

i don't ever say it other than in my head where i say gif, but i know it is supposed to be jif.

[pooh8402]

My IT/computer nerd husband acknowledges that it's supposed to be "jif," but he pronounces it "gif" too.

[bowies]

I refuse to say jif. REFUSE.

[atlas]

I don't care if the inventor of the damn thing came out and said that it was 'JIF'. I will NEVER pronounce it that way.

#GIF4lyfe

[SpartanGirl]

I pronounce it with a hard g sound but my husband constantly corrects me. Apparently the jif is the proper way to say it.

[estrellita]

I say it with the hard g, but I did read an article about 'jif' being the correct pronunciation. I can't bring myself to switch it after this long!

[timorousbeastie]

I definitely say jif. Hard g is like nails on a chalkboard for me. On the Nerdist podcast, Chris Hardwick had a great back-and-forth with Wil Wheaton about the pronunciation; it made me love Wil more and Chris a little less.

[aspentosh]

In my head, GIF, but when I say it I pronounce it properly as JIF.

[curbsideprophet]

JIF makes no sense. I don't really care that the creator wants it pronounced that way.

[azurely]

Jif, like the peanut butter

[mandymay]

Jif. I didn't know people pronounced it differently until last year, I think, when one of these polls was asked on ML. It blew my mind that people pronounced it with a hard G.

[pugz]

Jif. Reluctantly

[stealthmom]

Jan 14, 2015 17:11:15 GMT -5 pennypenny said:

When I say it in my head, I use the hard g. But I know that is wrong. When I say it out loud (which is rare), I pronounce it correctly like jiffy.

this exactly.

[lulu21]

It's wrong but like gift without the t. This reminds me of my friends arguing over how you say meme.