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Steve Wilhite's slide at the 2013 Webby Awards. The pronunciation of GIF, an acronym for the Graphics Interchange Format, has been disputed since the 1990s.Popularly rendered in English as a one-syllable word, the acronym is most commonly pronounced / ɡ ɪ f / ⓘ (with a hard g as in gig) or / dʒ ɪ f / ⓘ (with a soft g as in gin), differing in the phoneme represented by the letter G.
Wilhite's name comes up frequently in debate [11] over the pronunciation of the GIF acronym. [4] "The Oxford English Dictionary accepts both pronunciations," Wilhite said. "They are wrong. It is a soft 'G', pronounced 'jif'. End of story." [4] The intended pronunciation deliberately echoes the American peanut butter brand Jif. [12]
All you have to do is access Giphy's GIF Maker and paste the URL of a video from which you want to select a part. The video will load in the player and you will be prompted to pick a starting time ...
The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF; / ɡ ɪ f / GHIF or / dʒ ɪ f / JIF, see § Pronunciation) is a bitmap image format that was developed by a team at the online services provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite and released on June 15, 1987.
The pronunciation of GIF has been disputed since the 1990s. GIF, an English acronym for the Graphics Interchange Format, is popularly pronounced as a one-syllable word.The most common pronunciations in English are / dʒ ɪ f / ⓘ (with a soft g as in gin) and / ɡ ɪ f / ⓘ (with a hard g as in gift), differing in the phoneme represented by the letter G.
Stephen Wilhite, the creator of the looping animated image format, the GIF, died earlier this month, his wife said.
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