YSK When you hover over a piece of the phonetic notation on (English) Wikipedia, it shows you an example for its pronunciation

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• sudoku@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  g as in gif

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  • ceenote@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wrong, it’s pronounced “gif”

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  • __nobodynowhere@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    g as in genuine ginormous gendered giraffes gesticulating gingerly

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    • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      ‘G’ as in “Gary my guy, it’s great you have the guts to be wrong again!”

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  • colourlessidea@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    g as in gnome

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  • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I wish it was gnuf

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• AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Image

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  • Ambiance6195@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How dare you come here with this blasphemy.

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• hash@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  FUCK ALL Y’ALL ‘JIF’ MOTHERFUCKERS

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  • Kinokoloko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How do you pronounce laser

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    • huquad@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hard R

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      jaser

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    • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “laser”

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    • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There are several arguments for why it should be pronounced a given way and OP didn’t say any of them.

      I see you just picked your favorite to argue against.

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  • TeddE@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’ll bend over in a jiffy.

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• Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Looks like Wikipedia decided to let the users battle it out since they have both listed. Both the right and the wrong way.

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  • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    wow, they used to use the hard F on Family guy?

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• SpikesOtherDog@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Pronounced ‘chief.’

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  • Drbreen@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    More like Gee-f

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    • edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Gief

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    • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Okay, so like a GIF Wrangler

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• capt_wolf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Piss off both sides and just spell it. G.I.F.

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  • Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The notorious G I F

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  • scintilla@crust.piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I feel like that’s a win for hard G honestly.

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    • kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But the letter “G” has a soft “g” in its pronunciation. Otherwise, you’re talking about clarified butter.

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    • workerONE@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The letter g is pronounced Jee

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  • Grimy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just say the full name outright: “Graphically Integrated Frames”

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• tpihkal@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why do they list an incorrect pronunciation?

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  • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    To stop the edit wars.

    Also the creator of the format attempted to troll people by saying it’s officially pronounced “jiff”, and it’s taken as truth by the gullible and the people who believe that if you create something, you should be able to control what people call it (even if it defies logic).

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    • Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I agree that the manner this was presented at the 2013 Webbys, which kickstarted the debate, was jokingly, but the specifications have always recommended “jiff” since the format’s inception, though also a bit jokingly:

      Wilhite and the team who developed the file format included in the technical specifications that the acronym was to be pronounced with a soft g. In the specifications, the team wrote that “choosy programmers choose … ‘jif’”, in homage to the peanut butter company Jif’s advertising slogan of “choosy moms choose Jif”.[3]

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    • tpihkal@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      *“Jeff”

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• mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  GIF

  “Gee Eye Eff”

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  • MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I got real self righteous there for a second, but i see they included the wrong pronunciation as well

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• njm1314@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Are they always wrong though?

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• Babalugats@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Giraffe-ic Interchange Format.

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  • kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Weird that they don’t have the pronunciation listed for giraffe the same way

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffe

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  i’ve forgotten most of my IPA so this is really helpful

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  • JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Enough IPA and I tend to forget things as well.

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• rdri@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I first read that as a hitman image format.

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• jbrains@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  [deleted]

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  • monogram@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Jay-Phegg

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      yeah well jayphegg yourself buddy

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    • jbrains@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Meaning?

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    • jbrains@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      [deleted]

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• NovaSel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Me on mobile: Huh, interesting…

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• MadnessForTsar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The only thing I know about this is that it’s unnecessary to start another “internet war” over how someone pronounced terms like this one, since both pronunciation are recognizable (even my friends often spelled in with different results thanks to their accents and our local language too)

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• everett@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Also, generally anything with a dotted underline.

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• calisti@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Anything with a dotted underline is canonically meant to be hovered to show a tooltip.

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• dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If that’s not divisive in today’s political climate, I don’t know what is.

  ~/s~

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