Gif Pronounced Gif Or Jif

Thats the real end of story. Now back in the day the computer scientist who created gif steve wilhite of the popular online service compuserve indicated otherwise. In his acceptance speech he said that gif is pronounced jif not gif.

Gif was meant to be pronounced as jif.

Gif pronounced gif or jif. Steve wilhite who invented gif won webby award in 2013. Accept it and move along. It is a soft g pronounced jif but seven years later the debate is still ongoing. Its pronounced jif not gif of course in the grand tradition of heated debate a flat statement of fact by the creator wasnt enough to sway some partisans.

A survey of more than 1000 americans were asked whether they pronounce gif as jiff or gift and gift handily beat jiff nearly 54 to 41. It was conduced by. Unless you enjoy fighting over. Even if it was originally pronounced jif by the original creator it is now pronounced both jif and gif.

It seems like the jif side gained the upper hand. On twitter gif became a trending. To keep it all lighthearted giphy has created a suite of jif vs.