It’s pronounced GIF.

Is there a "right" way to pronounce it? And why is it so complicated? •

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[TomScottGo]

I realised after upload that I slipped up here: if you pay close attention, you can tell the way I pronounce GIF. Ah well! Also, subtitling this was an interesting job...

[KO]

It's prounced 'if'. Everyone knows that real Gs move in silence.

[superholly]

I read the title pronouncing it the way I do (of course) and thought "atta boy".

[sandro-eliesaad]

I'm more impressed that 'laser' is actually an acronym

[KoovoParkolainen]

The funny thing is, when I speak in English, I pronounce it jif, but when I speak in my native language, Finnish, I pronounce it gif.

[GrimOakheart]

I read the title: "It’s pronounced GIF."

"Oh hey, so Tom is on my side"

...oh wait

[yourlocalcashregister]

How to solve this: anger everyone by switching between both randomly

[barco]

"I promised Maria to get revenge"

[redsantelices]

"It's GIF!"
"No, it's JIF"

Me: G.I.F

[AconWasHere]

This reminds me of the time Uno tried telling people how Uno was "properly" played and people just ignored it

[Jather]

As someone who calls it 'G' 'I' 'F ' I call this an absolute win

[ograndecanalha]

most shocking things I learned today is how laser and scuba are acronyms

[Bexa-]

The inventor of Gif: “It is pronounced Jif”
The internet: “I recognize the council has made a decision, but given that it’s a stupid ass decision I have elected to ignore it.”

[GrayBlood]

Now go after people who draw their "8"s with two circles.

[Kastorul_]

Honestly, my take-away from this video is that "LASER" is an acronym. You learn something new everyday!

[poptat]

'It's GIF, not GIF.'

'It's LeviOsa, not LeviosA.'

[Vedantttt]

The “i” is pronounced “e”, it’s actually Jeff

[zetahurley]

see my issue is that .jif is a different file extension, which is ALSO for image files, but differently composed. Pronouncing so to avoid ambiguity it makes more sense to pronounce it with a hard G

[puzzlingcentaur]

I am from Croatia and on my recent travels I met two Canadians who surprised me by pronouncing GIF as JIF....I was so confused. Everyone I knew said "gif".

[KrBme]

The obvious solution is to start pronouncing it "yiff" so that no one gets to be happy.