If you pronounce gif as jif (which is wrong), you should also pronounce git as jit.

Not to mention gigabytes

@joycestick jijabytes 😂

Is it sarcastic? Come on... it's kown it's pronounced jif. That's the way Whilite pronounce it.

Jif is not wrong and I do pronunce git as jit 😂
Cause in Italian when there's a vowel after a g it's pronounced like j

@buscedv gör (jör) gärna (järna) gröt (gröt) ganska (ganska) grov (grov), gott (gott)

@buscedv anyone here could register a tld and publish a page like that in 30mins...

Leave Whilite alone!

Mr. Wilhite was given a lifetime achievement award at the 2013 Webbys (Congratulations!). He used the occasion to mention again, “It’s pronounced ‘JIF’.” In an article in the New York Times Blog, Bits, he says:

“The Oxford English Dictionary accepts both pronunciations. They are wrong. It is a soft ‘G’, pronounced ‘jif’. End of story.”

Not so fast. John Simpson, Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, disagrees with Mr. Wilhite:

“However, the pronunciation with a hard g is now very widespread and readily understood. A coiner effectively loses control of a word once it’s out there…”

* end of story *

"Graphics Interchange Format".

Graphics, not Japhics.

Ergo: GIF, not jif

It's pronounced "Jaif", for obvious reasons

Git is an English word, and it’s pronounced like the g in guilt. Gif is an abbreviation, and g stands for graphics.

@karasube it doesn't matter what he says

Wth, I was thinking exactly about this five minutes ago

BOTH PRONUNCIATIONS ARE CORRECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gin, is pronounced with a soft G.
Git, is pronounced with a hard G.
Gif, can be pronounced by either because Oxford dictionary accepts both pronunciations.

The creators of the format like to pronounce it as "Jif", but the sound with hard G is also mainstream nowadays, so it doesn't matter, please STFU about it already, everybody.

It was initially called after this

Giraffe

Looks like Giraffe stopped the whole debate on its tracks