How do you pronounce GIF?
jif / gif/dʒɪf/ 或 /ɡɪf/
Commonly said as: spelling it out as "gee-eye-eff"
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GIF
What it is
GIF is the animated image format introduced by CompuServe in 1987.
Why it gets said wrong
Its inventor, Steve Wilhite, insisted on the soft g, "jif". The hard g is more common in practice, and dictionaries list both. The one clear mistake is spelling it out letter by letter.
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