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Here’s a Timeline of the Debate About How to Pronounce GIF

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Graphics Interchange Format, or GIF, was first developed by computer scientist working at CompuServe back in 1987. And while ...
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Why We Can’t Stop Arguing About How to Pronounce GIF

Few linguistic debates have raged on more consistently than the one surrounding the proper pronunciation of the acronym, GIF. Fortunately, YouTuber and maker of things Tom Scott produced a video ...
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Jif Peanut Butter Rebrands as GIF — But How Do You Pronounce It?

How to correctly pronounce the word “GIF” has been the subject of a fierce debate for years — and it's only intensified as more and more GIFs are created. Now, one of the country's most popular peanut ...
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What Does GIF Stand For? And Let’s Finally Settle This—How Is It Actually Pronounced?

There is a big debate on the proper pronunciation. When you want to ask someone if they liked the GIF that you sent, how do you say it out loud? Most of us have heard it spoken a couple of different ...
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GIF vs. Jif: Peanut butter weighs in on pronunciation debate

The debate has raged for years over the pronunciation of the acronym for Graphics Interchange Format file type. In one camp, there are those who pronounce GIF with a hard G, as in "good" and "girl." ...