SmellyOgre Posted July 18, 2003 gif as in gift. BTW it's the peanut butter is spelled jiff. 0 Share this post Link to post
Ultraviolet Posted July 18, 2003 .GIF = Graphic Interchange Format, so "Gee Eye Eff" is perfectly valid. Jif, like the peanut butter, sounds fucking ridiculous. I personally say Giff (hard G). It's quicker and doesn't sound fucking stupid. 0 Share this post Link to post
Little Faith Posted July 18, 2003 Last time this was discussed someone pointed out that "jiff" should be the proper pronounciation, but since g is never used as a "j" sound in my language I stick with the "gift-t". 0 Share this post Link to post
deldelda Posted July 18, 2003 Well, since I can't vote because of error message* I will vote for Jiff, like the peanut butter. see http://www.doomworld.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=285886 0 Share this post Link to post
The Ultimate DooMer Posted July 18, 2003 Err...didn't we have this poll a while ago? 0 Share this post Link to post
DooMBoy Posted July 18, 2003 I pronouce it like gift, only without the t. I didn't think there was any other way of pronouncing it. 0 Share this post Link to post
SmellyOgre Posted July 19, 2003 Cyb said:png is better Ping, as in pong, but with a EE as in bEE. 0 Share this post Link to post
Grogglogobofink Posted July 19, 2003 Ichor said:Heh damn you beat me to it =P 0 Share this post Link to post
Ralphis Posted July 19, 2003 oops, i meant to hit gif but i hit jif instead. oh well. I think i say both depending on what i feel like saying? I'm tired 0 Share this post Link to post
Disorder Posted July 19, 2003 Ichor said:Heh Giff, but with Dutch pronounciation. 0 Share this post Link to post
Enjay Posted July 19, 2003 I used to say Gif (hard G) because that's how it's spelled. Then I read an FAQ from CompuServe (this was many years ago) and they said it was jiff. Silly, but I guess compuserve should know. 0 Share this post Link to post
geekmarine Posted July 19, 2003 Heh, I voted for jiff, and that's how I prefer to pronounce it, but really, I never liked that word to begin with, so generally I just try to avoid saying it whenever possible, because I never liked not knowing which was correct. As for png, I call it pong. 0 Share this post Link to post
Grazza Posted July 19, 2003 I always imagined it as a hard g, but then I heard someone in the web design industry pronounce it "jif". Ralphis said:i meant to hit gif but i hit jif insteadVotes amended accordingly. 0 Share this post Link to post
deldelda Posted July 20, 2003 geekmarine said:...As for png, I call it pong. I call it png. It's hard to say, a word without vowels. I say it just like it is, png. Like pung, but I say the "u" REALLY FAST. Png. You'll find yourself saying it for no reason whatsoever. 0 Share this post Link to post
Ralphis Posted July 20, 2003 I say png like ping. It just sounds like a i belongs there rather than a o or a u. To me anyway. 0 Share this post Link to post
Grazza Posted July 20, 2003 deldelda said:I call it png. It's hard to say, a word without vowels.Well, "pwn" is easy enough to say, so I don't see why "png" should be any more difficult. 0 Share this post Link to post
The Ultimate DooMer Posted July 20, 2003 Heh, that dictionary is cool...although 'you fail it' isn't in it. 0 Share this post Link to post