I will not indoctrinate my children into the correct pronunciation of "gif." I will let them decide for themselves.
I will, however, impart the fact that Steve Wilhite, the creator of the Graphics Interchange Format, stated in 2013 that the correct pronunciation is “JIF” — not “GIF.”
To those pointing out the hard G in some words beginning with G, a friend reminded me of an old adage:
"giant gerbil geologist with huge mortgage in Georgia discovers gerrothorax under Geoffrey's genital region"
@wood The language rule that has ruled even the Oxford English Dictionary is Common Usage. Current common usage is that Steve Wilhite's preferences cause confusion with a popular brand of peanut butter, so it's Wilhite's error after all. 😉 Common Usage demands GIF just for the purpose of making the distinction.
I've taken a screenshot of your image because I'm about to poke fun at the fact that it proclaims that GIF isn't to be pronounced the way it's spelled. How hard would it have been for Steve to just spell it JIF?
I'm guessing as hard as the hard time a certain peanut butter maker would give him over the deal. I just saved the image as "GIF is not pronounced GIF".
