How do you pronounce GIF?

GIF is pronunced JHGHIFFYHH

Seeing this: The Creator of the GIF Says It's Pronounced JIF..people will probably say it as they please or as it fits their habits and that's (sort of) acceptable nowdays given that many don't even care how to pronounce normal words properly, but he also has the right to define the pronounciation since he invented the "word". But what an obnoxious writer, the one from the article. Stupid comparisons and idiotic arguments ("should have named it JIF".. um.. it's an acronym moron). Haven't read anything else from that one, but he's a right tool and the wrong one for the job!

The poll is biased, as it contains the assumption that all the words starting with 'Gi' must be pronounced with a hard g (a mistake common among EASL; full disclosure: I am one, too), hence implying the first answer is correct and the other is not.

But you don't write Jiraffe, nor pronounce it with a hard G.

I know you can't edit it now, nevertheless a more impartial way to put this would have been:

• Gif like Gift
• Gif like Giraffe

Also there should be no 'ironic' third option. Bottom line, since the question contains an assessment of value, the results are predictably skewed in favor of the first option.

Well, I'm Northern Italian.
That means that my English is similar to the one spoken by Finns, Spaniards and so on. It's always so funny to meet Finnish metal musicians at concerts, I really love to talk with them, I mean, I met more Norwegians and Swedes but their English apart from some words was perfect.
When talking with Finnish musicians (I talked a lot with Korpiklaani for instance some months ago) it's awesome since it seems literally that we come from the same country when speaking English (ok, they don't even speak an Indo-European language, but it's really so similar to the Italian pronounciation xD).
Back - we do not have these letters in our alphabet: J K X W Y.
I know, they can be found in tons of Greek and Latin words that we still use, and many poets used J instead of I in the last centuries, and now we all use those letters in foreign words etc. etc.. but in a theoric way, those letters are NOT comprised in the Italian alphabet.
So?
I tend to view them as foreign when I see them and I pronounce "gif" as "jif", and if I had to read "jif" I would pronounce it as an Italian "gif", I mean, same word, for me it would be literally the same reading gif or jif, or as someone said Gilgamesh and Jilgamesh and so on =P Having no J in my alphabet, it's the same.
The "hard G" is something that we really can't think about!
For instance, words like "ignoring" or "ignorance": we say "ignorare", "ignoranza" - not " /ˈɪɡnəɹəns/ " but " /i.ɲːoˈran.t͡sa/"
It's a sound that doesn't exist in English, so we always hear that hard G as something really strange - you know, the words are all taken from Latin, so they are very very similar, so we expect the English to say them as we say them xD
So "gif" in Italian is literally pronounced "jif" and it's correctly written as it is, since we don't have the J letter!
Anyways of course when reading English texts or talking to foreign people I try to pronounce everything correctly xD

Fun fact: the town in which I was born is called Vignola and well take a peek here -> http://icebergproject.co/italian/2014/03/how-to-master-the-r-gn-gli-sounds-in-italian/
I often due to my work have to talk with Englishmen mainly and they all pronounce the hard GN like in ignorance, and I'm always like "are we talking about the same city?!" XD

magical images with moviment o.O

The G stands for graphics, thus that sounding G should be used.

Here in Czech Republic, we read words how they are written. So .gif is a gif, with G, no questions :D

I say JIF because GIF just sounds stupid. And if the guy who created it says JIF, that's all I need to keep doing it.

GIF, as in gift italy f...

Yif. The G is silent.

I pronounce it as the G in gift, partly because both words look similar, partly because I got used to saying it like that.

I pronounce it GIF as in gift.

JIF is peanut butter

View attached image.

Choosy developers choose GIF!

When he invented it, Steve Wilhite named it the Graphic Interchange Format so he could call it GIF, pronounced JIF like the peanut butter - he hoped the phrase would help it catch on, and it did. I used to work with him, it's pronounced JIF.

Those who point to the hard G in Graphics are ignoring every other acronym ever. How do you pronounce SCUBA and SNAFU?

People who pronounce it with a hard G are like people who pronounce nuclear "nukular" - it's a helpful hint to let everyone know you're not very bright.

Well, back when it (the gif format) was invented the "world wide web" - what you youngsters know as "the internet" now that it's all in a browser - wasn't really widespread yet. The creators at the time made it clear they intended it to be pronounced jif.

Those of us old enough that we were around then remember how many people laughed at that and rolled their eyes. The accepted wisdom of the time was that it was pronounced gif, and that the creators were morons to suggest anything else. Hearing someone pronounce it "jif" was how you could tell a total newbie who had not yet learned enough about computers to catch up on the language.

It's kind of how like a lot of grammar rules are there because someone said they're true, but nobody really uses them outside of strict writing contexts and schoolwork. We write one way, we speak another - or at least that used to be the case. People wrote gif, people said gif, but the grammar rules said it was supposed to be pronounced jif. Much like other antiquated notions about grammar the rule was quickly forgotten and left behind, and it wasn't until some 10-20 years later that the internet re-discovered this old joke of a thing and started having a huge debate about it.

So here's my take on it - pronounce it however you want, I have no fucks left to give on the issue. You will sound like a total newbie, or noob as it is called these days, to the old guard of the internet; but that's your right and not something that really matters at all now that the world wide web is something kids are learning to use before they're old enough to wipe their own snot.

I say it hard in Swedish but soft in English for some reason

With GIF it's either one or the other (hard g for me). I'm more interested in every other extension. My fave so far is hearing someone call PSD files 'pissed files', which was the highlight of my boring job.

"Guif" (in Spanish)
"Gif" (in English)

not

"Gif" (SPA)
"Jif" (ENG)

What Is it? New dumb internet hype? Like the dress one and the cat-crow one? Damn...

In italian it is pronounced jif. It would need an extra H to be pronounced as gif.

Like JYDGE, byt lais choins av be'en shit. Weed oi GYN~! 8)
^derpin'

Hard GYF, though, no jiffies, strictly no yiff. Ideologically ;p
Tend to pronounce miscellaneous pronounceable abbreviations and loanwords whose origin isn't clear to me (yet) in this sorta nasal, flat hypercorrect un-accent if they sound wholesome at all like that. Otherwise it's as close to the original rules I can manage. Derp.

I pronounce it as Pee-En-Gee

it's not a Giraffics Interchange Format, so noone cares what the creator says. He can call it whatever the hell he wants and it's still not going to be "Jeff" by default because english linguistics.

I say it as GIF, not JIF.
Was that way, not going to change most likely.

The correct way.