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The acronym for NASA uses the same sounds as the words that make the acronym. Same as GIF so I’m not sure what your point is. Mine is that GIF stands for graphics interchange format and graphics starts with a hard g therefore GIF should start with a hard g.

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Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
dictionary.cambridge.org/…/aeronautics

dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/…/agency

Then

dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/…/nasa

They are phonetically different sounds altogether, so your argument is flawed.

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- shottymcb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It’s the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
  
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  - Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Oof, I fucked that one up
    
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    shottymcb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Well Aeronautics is a hard A, so you got that at least. So you’re not entirely wrong. Should be naysah.
    
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Tavarin@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
SCUBA, unless you pronounce underwater as oonderwater.

Also JIF is a separate file format, so GIF should not be pronounced the same.

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