It’s pronounced Gif, with a soft G as in Graphics.
I don’t give a fuck what the idiot creator thinks it should be pronounced as, I’ll die on this hill with my honor intact, surrounded by the corpses of everyone who thinks Jif is referring to anything but peanut butter.
It’s pronounced GIF (sounding out each letter), like in that ‘If Google Was A Guy’ CollegeHumor video. Just so that it doesn’t annoy or antagonise anyone for a meaningless purpose. Everyone wins.
It’s pronounced Gif, with a soft G as in Graphics.
I don’t give a fuck what the idiot creator thinks it should be pronounced as, I’ll die on this hill with my honor intact, surrounded by the corpses of everyone who thinks Jif is referring to anything but peanut butter.
It’s pronounced GIF (sounding out each letter), like in that ‘If Google Was A Guy’ CollegeHumor video. Just so that it doesn’t annoy or antagonise anyone for a meaningless purpose. Everyone wins.
GeeEyeFff?
The peanut butter is exactly the reason he picked that pronunciation. Choosy developers choose gif.
It’s pronounced jif because jraphics are his phavorite.
That’s my reasoning as well. Jif is for peanut butter, why make things extra confusing?
But other words like SCUBA and NASA are not pronounced like the words they derive from, so this can’t be an all-encompassing rule.
ETA: Or maybe I’ve been pronouncing SCUBA and NASA wrong