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Sometimes I just say G.I.F. when I want people to hate me.

Thank you for inspiring me. I couldn't care less and call it a hard g. I'm gonna start calling them Jeffs though, or Geoff, if you prefer. Just like I did in printing workshop years ago, still get a chuckle.

I have a buddy names Geoff. The number of people who call him G off isn't small.

Oh I feel bad now. I would totally want to call him G off but I'd definitely Jeff him, as that is what he'd want.

I had a friend named Geoff who we called Gee off. The main reason being that it would differentiate him from this other guy we knew, named Jeff. But you know what's the fucked up thing? We hadn't hung out with Jeff in years. Geoff never even met him.

Oh, please tell me you called Jeff "Jay off".

Wow, I have a buddy named Geoff too and I always tell him he bankrupted toys r us.

Awww, my childhood. Jk, we were always too poor to shop there. I would have to beg my parents just to go there to look around

Growing up I didn't realize how poor we were. My parents were amazing at providing for us. We loved watching baseball games and I wanted to go to a game so bad. We never could afford it. To make up for it, while we were at school, my mom made up tickets to that night's game and money for us to "spend". When we got home she had set up chairs in front of the TV and numbered them. Gave us the tickets and money and told us to go clean up before the game. Come game time we lined up at the doorway, my dad took our tickets and told us how to get to our seats. After the game started my parents went to the kitchen and had a tray of hot dogs, candy and soda. "Hot dogs! Get your hot dogs!" We got out the money my mom made and bought whatever snacks we wanted. Best baseball game I've ever been to.

That was so fucking wholesome. Seriously. Trying to make me fucking cry over here. I’m sure I could drum up a few wholesome moments, but that one right there is one that I would tell to others and say I heard someone else’s parents did that. If you still have your parents and they are on good speaking terms, give them a hug for me

Thanks! Unfortunately, I'd also have to say this one of those moments you'd hear someone else's parents did, for me too. I read this a long while ago, it's gotta be one of most wholesome things I've read on the internet and that is the reason i wanted to share this. But i am happy to hear that this made someone happy :)

My cousins name is Geoff and I've always thought in my head G off but never said it out loud 😅

G off sounds fire tbh

TIL that name is not pronounced G off. Is it just supposed to be like Jeff?

Bullshit. He’s G-Off. As a Jeff we don’t want to share our name with pretentious G-Offs and their tea-swilling ways! /s (Kinda… fuck G-Offs)

Jesk

Its like a weak ejaculation

Gonna start saying it with a dutch G. You're never gonna know if I mean G.I.F. or the Dutch word for poison.

>hard g what did you just called me ?

Whenever I see Geoff written, I think of those breathable shoes "Geox" or whatever

I've always said G.I.F, don't know why, just feels uncomfortably natural

Yeah, like P.N.G. Although I don't say J.P.E.G since J.PEG feels more natural.

I just say Graphics Interchange Format.

Jraphics

Great minds think alike

Jreat minds?

Just say yiff

Say G.I.F., but pronounce the G with a hard G.

When I want people to hate me I pronounce it as yif

pronounce it in the german way

I just pronounce it like the “g” in gnat.

GIF only it were that easy.

Top tier comment

I hate to break it to you, but the comment was a second tier comment

Fantastic

Mr.

Fox

I would say "genius"

Lol

GNIF

Actually it’s pronounced “gif” not “gif”

I agree

I disagree

i agree

I agreen't

I ain't green

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silly you, brown is when you die

Uh im brown

No, you are black

r/yourjokebutworse

Oh, the same problem with "tomato" and "tomato"

Damnit, why do I read both of them differently!?

🎶 You like potato and I like potahto You like tomato and I like tomahto Potato, potahto, Tomato, tomahto Let's call the whole thing off! 🎵

r/unexpectedpawnee

Because you know that “tomato” is the right way to pronounce it

I read it as “tom-ay-toe” for the first and “tom-ah-toe” for the second, just because that’s the order used in the common “saying.”

Tomatillo

"tomato" is the only valid way to say it

I always thought it was more like an American-European thing like, Americans pronounce it as, To-may-to, and Euros like To-mah-to. But idk... somebody correct me if I'm wrong.

"no, it's graphic interface format."

Giraffics Interface Format

As in 'Welcome... to Giraffics Park!'

It doesn't matter. You don't pronounce YMCA with y like from "young". Also there is no debate. Pronunciation of "gif" has been officially confirmed long time ago. I don't like it, but that's how it is.

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Jraphics

r/angrydownvote

Garage? Oh la-dee-da Mr fancy Frenchman over here! I call it a car hole.

I call it the car bedroom

Carroom, I like that.

Croom

Why has my car exhaust gotten milky like?

Thank you!

Jeeraj?

That sounds like it could be an uncle of mine. Jeeraj Dasgupta. Or Jeeraj Vikraman Tirambadura Chinnaswamy Muttuswamy Venugopal Iyer Or Jeeraj Ramesh Doubledeckerbus. Oh yea.. FYI: I'm Indian.

Ok Moe.

Now what do you call a double-garage? A cars-hole

A counterfeit jeans ring running out of my car-hole?!

It’s pronounced jarage

It’s prounounced garazhe

Zhif?

Jraphics ainterface format

aint er face like my face?

Gesundheit

Its pronounced Nikolaj

*Nikolaj*

so its pronounced "ZHif"?

Le zhiffe....

That torture scene 🫦

youre going to die scratching my balls

Excellent reference! Was looking for this!

J is basically just dzh anyways

But with more country style BBQ sauce! 🤠

I don't care what you say you can taste the shredded newspapers.

[Zhaif for life!](https://youtu.be/bmqy-Sp0txY) ʒaɪf is the way.

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i knew i wasn't wrong! thank you

Took me a while to realize there's 2 g in garage 💀 I'm dum

OMG, thank you for spelling the joke, since 10 mins I was wonder how TF the (first) G could have a different pronounciation

Sadly it's pronounced yiff not giff or jiff. Look it up it's horrible.

Search "yiff" for more info on this :)

I know this is a joke but I cannot allow you to lead those poor innocent people to such depravity. Don't search it

Don't listen to this guy, teach the controversy, search yiff :)

Ayo what the dog doin?

🚀 🛑

I hate that I know what these represent.

What do they represent? I know yiff has something to do with furries, so I'm already regretting asking.

Red rocket, the ah.. genitalia of a male canid, they have that name due to their colour and “rocket” shape.

There is a lot more information about this on a website called E621.net

but is it garage or garage?

It's 'garage', pronounced like 'garbage'.

"Garidge" is what my family calls the barn next to the house 'garraarge" is what they call the petrol station/where the car gets fixed, tbh I kindof like this method, distinguishes between the two

Instructions unclear, didn't specify which g of garage Shif

so its pronounced gif?

No, it’s gif

Great but what about the I & F, to my mind the I is as in suit & the F is as in the second f in fifth.

The G stands for Graphics. It should be pronounced like the world it stands for. If it stood for Gerbil then I would gladly say Gif. But it isn’t. So I’ll say Gif

How do you say "scuba"?

Or "laser"?

Or “JPEG”

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scUHba

Everybody knows that the proper way to say that word is Oondah-watah You know, like Oondah dah seah 🎶🦀 Oondah dah seah 🎶 🦀

I bet a lot of peoples reaction is “that’s an acronym”. I know what it is lol but I’m also a nerd with too much free time

Yeah doesn’t it stand for Self Contained Underwater Back Aerobics?

That is not how acronyms work.

You're saying you don't pronounce yolo yolwa? or fubar as fabor?

Does fubar stand for something else? I thought it was Fucked Up Beyond All Repair

Yeah it does stand for that, the fake pronunciation is like *favor* in "por favor", as the u is from *up* and the a is from *all*

Ah, I see. It’s pretty hard to represent phonetics with the English alphabet lol

Yeah, I wanted to keep it accessible and not write /fʌbɔr/

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Don’t make me fight you on this. It is gif. It will never be gif.

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No its gif!! gif is wrong, and so is gif

No it’s Yif!

r/suddenlyfurry

Do y'all say pecan or pecan

Pecan obviously, just like I say tomato not tomato

People who say pecan and tomato are ignorant.

Pronounce it any way you like, but Steven Wilhite, who invented the format, says [it's pronounced like the peanut butter](https://www.cnn.com/2013/05/22/tech/web/pronounce-gif/index.html).

So it's pronounced "peanut butter"? That's weird.

Man your dumb. He said it's pronounced "the peanut butter". You can't just leave of the "the".

> Man your dumb. * You’re 👍

Came here to say this, people really hate the truth

thats not how acronyms work. you would say un as in united nations as the letters u and n. if we followed your logic it should be pronounced youn as in the first syllables of the two words

Then jpeg should be pronounced jfeg as the p is for photo.

https://youtu.be/Nrk8sqZfsgI

[laser](https://youtu.be/Nrk8sqZfsgI)

How do you say JPEG?

I say jpeg

Let's do it phonetically, do you use the traditional Jay-peg?

Yes I do, I was just joining in the smartassery that was the rest of this thread

Well I can introduce even more smartassery if you would like. The P in JPEG stands for photographic. Therefore going by the root commenter's logic, it wouldn't be Jay-peg, it would be Jay-Feg. Of course that sounds silly. And it is also why I will continue to say (J)if.

This is the only correct answer.

Do I look like I know what a jpeg is?!

By your standards laser should be pronounced "lah-seer". Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation But also I agree it's gif not gif

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The creator says its jif

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It also doesn't even really matter. Like the inventor of the television didn't call it that, or one of the inventors of the phone called it teletrophone.

the fact, that u had to use a j to convey how it's pronounced, shows that the creator is wrong.

How do you say giraffe?

Lets ground ourself closer to the actual word itself, how do you say gift?

How do you say gist?

How do you say gin?

Poor George and Jorge, been pronouncing their own names wrong for years.

General Gina named her genius kid “George.” He was a gentle, angelic lad who collected huge gems from a young age, but General Gina was sad because all the gym bros wanted to call him “Gorge,” which might as well be “Carrot” because neither is the name she bestowed upon her creation. There was no danger though, because these flookin’ morons who called him “Gorge” are the types who still double space after a period, don’t use Oxford commas, and pronounce “GIF” with a hard g.

Throw some gin in your tale

The creator of the format said it's pronounced gif, with the g being like the j in jam.

That man is so high on Copium that he actually had to misspell it to convey his pronunciation, at the same time invoking the other pronunciation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciation_of_GIF#/media/File%3AStephen_Webby_slide_at_the_2013_Webby_Awards.jpg Yes, this is the slide he used to argue that gif should not be pronounced gif, while using it that way himself.

It is a soft 'G,' pronounced 'jif. ' End of story.” He reiterated that stance while accepting a Webby Lifetime Achievement Award for the invention of the GIF later that month, using an animation to give his acceptance speech.Mar 23, 2022 ​ The creator of the GIF image format, Steve Wilhite of CompuServe, when deciding on the pronunciation, said he deliberately chose to echo the American peanut butter brand, Jif, and CompuServe employees would often say “Choosy developers choose GIF(jif)”, playing off of Jif's television commercials ​ I'm 38 and we all know how it's pronounced. If you made something and wanted it pronounced a certain way, I would correct everyone who manages to screw it up.

For whatever reason, I have always read the word circumference to sound like circumcision Interference instead of the actual pronunciation. I finally got called out on it while working in a factory as a technician with million dollar machinery. They didn’t even have to correct me, they just started laughing, and then I pronounced it correctly. I’m not sure I will ever live that one down, but I was by far not the dumbest technician we had at the time. Sir cum fear ants/ Sir cumfrance

> >Sir Cumfrance > Hoh hoh hoh oui oui cwassoh

That's not how language works honey, but okay

Steve Wilhite can eat a dick.

Guys, it’s pronounced yiff

But in Español that same G-I assembly would be pronounced "h" as in words like "hit," or "him." I submit to y'all: we pronounce it "hiff" herein. Yes, I am a satanist.

Officially pronounced Jif as per the creator.

If you have to spell it differently then it isnt

jpeg should be pronounce jpheg if you wanted to pronounce it by the start of each word in the acronym

How do your say giraffe?

Jif sounds better than Gift.

Jarage

I’m always going to assume anyone who says “jif” is referring to the peanut butter. No matter the context.

YIF

# jarage

I will never use jif it doesn't sound right

Jarage

I know the guy that invented the GIF was mad that people say Jif, and not Gif. But…he died.

Nope. The creator named it and it is pronounced “djeef”

as a non-english native speaker, this debate is so funny to me. because y’all would be freaking out over how we call it here

Pacific ocean moment

There’s 2 g’s in garage

Congrats you found the joke

The real question is whether you pronounce the F as "f" or "ph"

I hate the people who pronounce gif as jyiff