Short excerpt from a YouTube video (by LARRUZ) debating whether the acronym GIF is pronounced with a hard 'g' (as in 'gift') or a soft 'j' (as in 'jif'). The speaker argues for the hard 'g', citing that the G stands for 'graphics' and saying the format's creator allowed either pronunciation but the speaker prefers the pronunciation matching the word 'graphics'.
I also say gif, and a lot of people try to tell me that it's gif, but the G stands for graphics, which is a G. So therefore I call it gif. Somebody's arguing giraffe is a G. But what does GIF stand for? Graphics. G. G, G Graphics. Right. If it was a giraffe interchange format, then I would call it a gif, but it's a G Rafics interchange format, therefore I call it a gif. The creator of the GIF file format said it's G if not j, if it definitely could be pronounced either way. I mean, if somebody says gif, we know what they're talking about. Or gif. But I just feel like if the first word is graphic and graphic starts with a G, then gif should start with a G.
