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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.
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.
Founder of .Gif Officially Declares How It's Pronounced ASKfm , a social network based on asking questions, combed through top trending GIFs on its site in February to see which clips people are ...
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]
The soft pronunciation of г occurs before any of the "softening" vowels е ё и ю я ь and the hard pronunciation occurs elsewhere. However, the letter ж functions as a "soft g" in the Romance sense, with alterations between г and ж common in the language (e.g. ложиться, "to lie (down)", past tense лёг; подруга ...
The second of five storms that will slam the eastern half of the United States with snow and ice over a two week period is on the way – and this one has more snow than the first.
The Dallas Cowboys requested permission to interview Philadelphia Eagles offensive coordinator Kellen Moore for their vacant head coaching position, multiple media outlets reported Thursday.
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