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OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I may sound haughty and knowledgable when I say JiF then, but between just you and me, I didn’t know a damn thing about this and just decided to say it this way in my brain for reasons that remain unclear.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Me too. I just always said it with a soft G because my brain told me that’s how it was pronounced.

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  • OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Strange that I never got a notification for this. Hm.

    I’ve always pronounced it that way for whatever reason, and when I learned that was the correct way I was very high and mighty, lol

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• MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oooh, that’s how grammar works in English language. Okay, so me as a developer of some obscure thing from this point forward are instructing everyone to pronounce “home” as “hume”, since that’s how you pronounce “o” in “tomb”. I decided that solely because my software is loosely related to the meaning of the word. K thx bai.

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  • OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Did you invent the word home? No? So you don’t get to decide how to pronounce it.

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    • MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Neither did the author of graphic format. GIF is not a word, but initialism, like NSA, FBI, NASA, IBM, etc. And there are specific rules how they are read and pronounced.

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      • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        NASA is an acronym, not an initialism. And guess how the last letter of NASA is pronounced versus how the A in the corresponding word is pronounced. Ah vs Uh.

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      • OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        O.k.

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  • halm@leminal.space ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wait till you hear about ghoti…

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    • MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Haha, good one!

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• carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes but actually no

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• irmoz@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Was it a gift?

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  • OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, from a gyrating genie named George.

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• AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh yeah? Well lick my gargantuan gorilla gonads.

  (I’m actually team jif but can’t help myself)

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• snowe@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I always think all the arguments are ridiculous because it’s essentially saying that someone is pronouncing a product (not a word) that they created incorrectly. This product even has a catchphrase for it. There’s literally nothing you can say to contradict that. It’s a product with a catchphrase that describes how to pronounce it. If you pronounce it differently then you do you, but you are wrong.

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  • Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s also pretty funny when it’s about actual product you will get corrected to the intended pronunciation, or at least, allowed because people acknowledge there might be multiple way of reading a word based on where you from. Like potato and tomato.

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• AnarchistsForDemocracy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Life is all about jif and dake.

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• Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Good god Gordon go gag a gator

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• KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  technically starts with the D sound

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  • OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Now you’re just getting crazy

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