Bocefish said:
I always used a hard G too, until...
The creators of the format, Bob Berry & Steve Wilhite, claim that this soft "g" sound is used. At some point one of them said, "Choosy programmers choose GIF," a play on the peanut butter commercials where "Choosy moms choose Jif."
Whether that's factual, or not... :dontknow:
Yeah I totally read up on it a while back... it's just... I can't do it. I get that they made a cute saying with it, but if it's an abbreviation of Graphics Interchange Format, and you pronounce
Graphics with a hard G, I have trouble pronouncing the abbreviation of it with a different sound.
This is one of the biggest arguments/debates on the web, I think. :lol: