• MehBlah@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    No the overwhelming majority of kids think its pronounced that way. The majority of us who were around when it was written know how its pronounced. How do we know? We know because the guy who wrote it told us.

    • ManosTheHandsOfFate@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      I first heard it in pronounced “jif” from a guy in my college dorm in the mid 90s. I’ve just pronounced it that way every since. Is it there a generation gap in how it’s pronounced? I do catch some flak from my kids about how I pronounce it.

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      1 month ago

      I was around before gifs even existed. No one I knew ever pronounced it jif. It was always like gift. In fact, I never even heard any question of how it was pronounced well into the use of gifs.

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        1 month ago

        Thank you for that pointless attempt at comparison. They never changed the name of gif nor the pronunciation of it.