[Scourge of Ages]

Hard G. Say it how you want, so will I. End of story.

Or, just, y'know, holy war.

[SypheDMar]

Yeah, Steve Wilhite officially said,



http://www.businessinsider.com/jif-peanut-butter-on-gifs-official-pronunciation-2013-5

I used to pronounce with hard G too, but I don't think the switch is hard since I enjoy Jif's creamy peanut butter.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Well, the White House says it's a hard 'G'. Though granted, that was before this info came out.

[deathfun]

I've never heard of Jif's creamy peanut butter

Either way, I say extensions as they make sense to me. Example:

Also, for bonus points: PNG is pronounced the same as the word 'ping', not 'pee-enn-jee'.

Ping doesn't make sense for me

GIF makes more sense as I derive it from a T-less GIFT

[General Battuta]

enm

[Scotty]

Also, for bonus points: PNG is pronounced the same as the word 'ping', not 'pee-enn-jee'.

Ping doesn't make sense for me

I always pronounced it "PING!" (! is necessary) because it makes me feel like a submarine captain stalking a convoy of pixel-tankers.

Much more interesting than "pee enn jee".

[mjn.mixael]

Meh.. sounds to me that Steve Wilhite just wanted everyone to remember his name, so he inflamed a small, unimportant nerd controversy. Kablamo, now even I know his name. Good work, Steve.

[karajorma]

I say we simply all convert to using PNG so as to avoid this nonsense.

Is there actually any advantage to using GIF anymore?

[BloodEagle]

Built-in animation support for pretty much everything.

[karajorma]

Yeah, I just looked it up. I never realised that animPNG formats were such a quagmire.

[Klaustrophobia]

i didn't know they could do it at all.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Yeah, I just looked it up. I never realised that animPNG formats were such a quagmire.

It's not that bad. A few years back, there were few programs that had native support for APNG, Firefox being one of them. At least there's a small list of programs that either have native support for APNG or can view APNG with a plug-in now.

[Black Wolf]

Pretty straightforward - He's wrong. It's a hard G. Just like Mt Everest is pronounced "Ever-Rest" even though the guy it's named after pronounced his name "Eve-Rist" or something like that. He doesn't get to decide the pronunciation, we do.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

So..."jif"?

[Jeff Vader]

So..."jif"?

[karajorma]

Yeah, I just looked it up. I never realised that animPNG formats were such a quagmire.

It's not that bad. A few years back, there were few programs that had native support for APNG, Firefox being one of them. At least there's a small list of programs that either have native support for APNG or can view APNG with a plug-in now.

Based on what I've read, there's no formal standard for it, and the PNG group rejected the APNG format in favour of whatever bastardised solution they completely failed to actually produce in the end.


So basically we're stuck with this nonsense where you can either agree with 99% of the population of the planet on the pronunciation but occasionally have to deal with some know-it-all arsewipe correcting you, or spend the rest of your life putting up with people looking at you and saying "What's an animjif?"

[MP-Ryan]

So basically we're stuck with this nonsense where you can either agree with 99% of the population of the planet on the pronunciation but occasionally have to deal with some know-it-all arsewipe correcting you, or spend the rest of your life putting up with people looking at you and saying "What's an animjif?"

This.  Let's just accept that Steve Wilhite was brilliant in creating the image format, but he should have taken a remedial English class before naming it.

[jr2]

JIF is a kind of peanut butter, and they can get out.

My thoughts exactly.

EDIT:

.JPG is pronounced "jay-peg", right?  Because they are actually .JPEG (switched to .JPG b/c of MD-DOS / FAT-16 8.3 filename limits)

[deathfun]

No, it's pronounced jeerperged-z

[jr2]

The other pronunciation would be "jay-pee-gee"