Gif Pronounced Gif Or Jif

Accept it and move along. Now back in the day the computer scientist who created gif steve wilhite of the popular online service compuserve indicated otherwise. Even if it was originally pronounced jif by the original creator it is now pronounced both jif and gif.

Its pronounced jif not gif of course in the grand tradition of heated debate a flat statement of fact by the creator wasnt enough to sway some partisans.

Gif pronounced gif or jif. In his acceptance speech he said that gif is pronounced jif not gif. Gif was meant to be pronounced as jif. A survey of more than 1000 americans were asked whether they pronounce gif as jiff or gift and gift handily beat jiff nearly 54 to 41. To keep it all lighthearted giphy has created a suite of jif vs.

Thats the real end of story. On twitter gif became a trending. It was conduced by. Unless you enjoy fighting over.

It is a soft g pronounced jif but seven years later the debate is still ongoing. It seems like the jif side gained the upper hand. Steve wilhite who invented gif won webby award in 2013.