Choosy mothers choose gif.
As a grizzled vet of the post-2004 GIF community let me state definitively, this is a non-argument: the gif creator's own preferences have been trumped by the street (which actually uses his product on a daily basis), and only posers say "jif" now.
...I respect Mr. Wilhite’s choice to be retroactively wrong about the pronunciation of the name of something which he himself invented....
"Shadus" makes a good point: "I’ve always pronounced it GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) same G as Graphics…"
(Giraffe-ic Interchange Format)
I've been using the soft g for nigh on twenty years. I don't know that I can re-program those bits at this point.
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Choosy mothers choose gif.
- mark 5-23-2013 5:25 am
As a grizzled vet of the post-2004 GIF community let me state definitively, this is a non-argument: the gif creator's own preferences have been trumped by the street (which actually uses his product on a daily basis), and only posers say "jif" now.
- tom moody 5-23-2013 12:09 pm
...I respect Mr. Wilhite’s choice to be retroactively wrong about the pronunciation of the name of something which he himself invented....
- jim 5-23-2013 12:45 pm
"Shadus" makes a good point: "I’ve always pronounced it GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) same G as Graphics…"
(Giraffe-ic Interchange Format)
- tom moody 5-23-2013 3:02 pm
I've been using the soft g for nigh on twenty years. I don't know that I can re-program those bits at this point.
- mark 5-23-2013 7:09 pm