minus-squareEssentialCoffee@midwest.socialtoComic Strips@lemmy.world•JPEGlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·2 years ago GIF was pronounced with soft g since it came out, back in the 80s/90s when it was shared on AOL and CompuServe. FWIW, in the 80s & 90s, everyone I knew pronounced it with a hard G, including folks at computer shows, which my family used to go to frequently. To me, the soft g ‘jif’ pronunciation is the new Internet fad, not the other way around. linkfedilink
FWIW, in the 80s & 90s, everyone I knew pronounced it with a hard G, including folks at computer shows, which my family used to go to frequently.
To me, the soft g ‘jif’ pronunciation is the new Internet fad, not the other way around.