• I Cast Fist
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    -61 year ago

    OBJECTION!!

    First and foremost, pronounced Gif there

    Graphics Interchange Format. Not Jraphics. Unless you spell it out as Jee-Ai-Eff

    Also, git isn’t spelled “jit”, it’s not “jit gud”, nor “jit hub”. Other examples that would be wrong: jirl, jirth, jiddy, jirder, jingko

    Most of the ‘ji’ sounding words are rooted from other languages, mostly French (some of them brought over from Latin). Finally, languages where ‘ge’ and ‘gi’ sound like ‘je’ and ‘ji’ say ‘Gif’

    • HatchetHaro
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      51 year ago

      By that logic, “scuba” should be pronounced scuh-ba, and “laser” should be pronounced lah-seer.

      Also “jee” is also how you say the letter “G”.

      Gin, Germany, giraffe, gypsy, gib, giblet. Raising examples of words that start with hard and soft Gs is absolutely pointless when both exist and are equally valid.

      Why are people arguing about how an acronym is pronounced in the English language anyways? Who gives a shit? When you point out a “rule” in English, there will always be exceptions, many exceptions, to that rule. Even English doesn’t even agree with English: “entree” means appetizer in Europe but main course in the US.

      So why do you care so much?

      • I Cast Fist
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        11 year ago

        So why do you care so much?

        Because it’s always fun to poke fun at how chaotic, anarchic and directionless the english language is. Besides, some of its rules feel more like suggestions

    • @Lizardking27@lemmy.world
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      21 year ago

      You clearly didn’t even read the whole comment. Acronyms do not need to be pronounced according to their constituent words.