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Jiv me a break
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this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2023
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Cuz the devs explicitly named it after the peanut butter and even gave it a catchphrase to make sure you pronounced it correctly. It was a marketing campaign. “Choosy developers choose gif”.
How do you pronounce JIF, then? (That's the JPEG Interchange Format.)
The same way? There’s thousands of words in the English language with the same pronunciation and different spellings. This isn’t the dunk you think it is.
Besides, gif existed first. If JIF wanted to use the name without confusion maybe they should have come out first (missed it by half a decade) or come up with a catchy phrase.
Gif, clearly.
That's JPEG File Interchange Format.
Right there in the first paragraph, it says
It's a real shame (for them) they don't dictate how the English language works
Neither do you?