WebP does everything GIF did, just better. The only problem is adoption. Maybe a similar, single-syllable name could have helped.
- Ends the pronunciation debate: hard G in the 1987 filetype, soft G in the 2010 one
- Looping soundless video gets a name that’s short and does not refer to a terribly inefficient format (that “gif” sharing sites often no longer use anyway), plus some wrong people have been using it already
- Software peer-pressured into supporting it (nobody wants to hear “they don’t support JIF” about their software)
You’ll never end the debate about how to pronounce Gif. Homophones exist. There’s a pronunciation guide in the original documentation, and that didn’t end the debate.
Homophonia is a huge issue
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Jraphics Interchange Format
Sure, but for consistency you also have to pronounce JPEG as “jay-feg”.
G on it’s own can do hard or soft sounds. P needs the H to do the F.
… which further strengthens the underlying point that acronyms don’t need to be pronounced like the words they represent.
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Acronyms do not work that way! It isn’t a thing. You’re talking nonsense.
And it was WRONG
There is no wrong. English doesn’t have wrong pronunciations. You’re either understood or you aren’t. There’s the original pronunciation, and there’s the new pronunciation. Both are used, so neither is wrong.
Agree
But also. Jif is wrong.
You’re welcome to pronounce any word any way you like. I’m not going to change the way I’ve been saying a word for 30 years just because you don’t like it. If you’re understood, it’s all good.
Humans are even more horrible that this first glance suggests. Imagine, one day, the debate truly ends and a single pronunciation for GIF is universally established and recognized by everyone. A group of humans will start to intentionally mispronounce it (or misspell it) just for the aggravation it will generate in others or for their own amusement.
This is where the meme-like behavior of deliberately misspelling the popular phrase (at the time) “all correct” as “oll korrect”. This was later abbreviated as “o.k.” and then eventually “ok”. A phrase we likely use dozens or hundreds of times a day is meme-speak from 1839. source
Thanks for that link, I’ve long wondered the origin of OK!
So what you’re saying is that just like articles—THEY DIDN’T READ. Then they perpetuated fake news until it was accepted by half the audience.
More than half. Less than 25% of people use the original pronunciation of gif, and two people in this thread have repeated the absurd misconceptions that popularized the new pronunciation.
Well, I like peanut butter and that’s how it’s pronounced. I guess I’m part of the quarter gang.
There’s dozens of us! I’m just old enough to remember when the file format was new and people talked about it.