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How do you pronounce Git?

git/ɡɪt/

Commonly said as: using a soft g, "jit"

Correct readingwith the dictionary applied

ghit

Raw machine readingno correction at all

Git

What it is

Git is the distributed version-control system Linus Torvalds wrote in 2005.

Why it gets said wrong

Hard g, as in get, never "jit". English gi- can be hard (give, girl) or soft (giant), which is exactly why models guess wrong.

Hear it in a sentence

Example sentence

Commit the change to Git first.

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