![]() If you went through that (admittedly dramatic) thought exercise with me, you can probably see where I’m going with this: When someone chooses a name for something, they should, A) choose a better name than “Cissed,” and, B) get to dictate the pronunciation of the name. They think it’s pronounced “cyst” everyone thinks it’s pronounced “cyst”! Then you hear it: Someone mispronounces your app, your creation. ![]() You’ve got to come up with a modern, catchy name, and you settle on “Cissed,” pronounced “kissed.” Cissed climbs the charts, and suddenly everyone is using your app. ![]() Let’s say you create a dating app that rates users based on their kissing abilities. Truth is, I used to be one of those hard-G pronouncers, but I’ve since become an enlightened soft-G pronouncer. Some of my co-workers pronounce GIF with a hard G - like gift, or golf, or good. I pronounce GIF with a soft G - like giraffe, or Geronimo, or gesture. See also Time's Timeline of the Debate About How to Pronounce GIF.Every time I write a story for Newsy that in any way references the GIF, a debate breaks out. Which probably means we'll be fighting the gif pronunciation war for generations to come. And you'll never find an overwhelming enough piece of counter-evidence to get you to change your mind. In other words, when you see a new word starting with "gi," your previous exposure to "gi" words is basically telling you to flip a coin-it's just as likely that you'll decide to pronounce it with a hard g as with a soft g. In 2015, internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch concluded in her article Why the Pronunciation of GIF Really Can Go Either Way: Perhaps 26 years too late! The hard-G version is so widespread, I tend to hear hard-G GIF the most and have seen little evidence of change in the past decade or so. On Tuesday, he received a Webby Award for it and delivered his five-word acceptance speech (that's all the Webbys allow) by flashing a GIF on the big screens at the Cipriani Wall Street in New York. Steve Wilhite created the Graphics Interchange Format, or GIF, while working for Compuserve in 1987. Use whichever version you prefer, both are in widespread use.Īccording to CNN the creator gave his opinion in 2013: I have already read the following articles.ĭeciding pronunciation of new words that don't obey natural rules of a language) Which one should I use? Or Can I use both? Indeed, the title and the specifics are different.Īnd there is general confusion due to videos and articles such as this YouTube clip. ![]() Some users may say that this question has already been answered by ( Deciding pronunciation of new words that don't obey natural rules of a language).īut the above does not appear in the search results directly. Why does its creator use different way to pronounce it( he prefers gif as in giraffe) Why is there no standard way pronounce it?Ģ. There are two common ways to pronounce this abbreviation.ĭifferent people pronounce it different way.ġ. But i request you to comment why you are downvoting this post. This is a bit opinion based.You are free to downvote this post. This is a classic example of toe-ma-toe vs toe-mah-toe. I know there isn’t a correct way to pronounce gif. ![]()
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