Yahoo

Here’s a Timeline of the Debate About How to Pronounce GIF

The Graphics Interchange Format, or GIF, was first developed by computer scientist working at CompuServe back in 1987. And while it has swelled or dipped, the debate over how to pronounce the acronym ...
nerdist

Why We Can’t Stop Arguing About How to Pronounce GIF

Few linguistic debates have raged on more consistently than the one surrounding the proper pronunciation of the acronym, GIF. Fortunately, YouTuber and maker of things Tom Scott produced a video ...
NBC DFW

Jif Peanut Butter Rebrands as GIF — But How Do You Pronounce It?

How to correctly pronounce the word “GIF” has been the subject of a fierce debate for years — and it's only intensified as more and more GIFs are created. Now, one of the country's most popular peanut ...
WTSP

GIF vs. Jif: Peanut butter weighs in on pronunciation debate

The debate has raged for years over the pronunciation of the acronym for Graphics Interchange Format file type. In one camp, there are those who pronounce GIF with a hard G, as in "good" and "girl." ...
Time

Jif Peanut Butter Has Waded Into the Debate Over How You Should Be Pronouncing Gif

Jif peanut butter has waded into one of the most fervent debates of our modern time: the right way to pronounce GIF. The battle has raged for some time now between those with strong feelings as to the ...
The Atlantic

If You Pronounce GIF with a Hard G, You Must Be New to the Internet

And so on. But the thing is? The Times is right. The first GIF I ever made, which, lamentably, isn't currently online, was of breakdancers. (It was sort of like the image at left, which is from this ...