Okay, even though there's every rational reason to go for a hard G for "GIF", I pronounce it with a soft G. Sue me.
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I don't care, I'm still going to use the hard G.
“GIF” Inventor Steve Wilhite: It’s Pronounced “JIF” Not “GIF”
The GIF’s inventor clears up the word’s actual pronunciation.
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It's what the inventors of the format wanted. There's no set way to pronounce acronyms. The guy who comes up with it gets to say how it's pronounced and he says it's pronounced "jif".
Strong Bad: "Gif. Or Jif. I heard a couple of nerds arguing about it once."
We knew I was a nerd a long time ago.
And it's a good thing, too!
It's been a thorn for the developer since the start, I think. I remember reading the RFC back in the 90's and "soft 'g' like the peanut butter 'Jif'" was about the third sentence in the document.
And while we're at it, it's soft g "gibbed' when you blow someone up in a video game, not hard g. It's short for giblets.
The p in pedantic is pronounced as expected.