“Jif” or “GIF?” Jif® and GIPHY Say There’s Only One Jif - and It’s Peanut Butter

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[tigirah]

I would have to physically unlearn the muscle memory in my tongue to pronounce it with a hard G. 'Jif' just rolls better.

All my friends roast me for it but idjaf.

[aristobrit]

It is "Jif." People pronouncing it the other way are just wrong.

This post coming after the flat earth post is making me laugh. It's Jif, no matter who wants to mispronounce it.

[tigirah]

really enjoying the vibe of your comment + icon, and you're absolutely right!

[aristobrit]

Thanks. It's reminding me of the people who insist on referring to Sandra Bullock as "Sondra." Her name is not Sondra, it's plain old Sandra and her nickname is Sandy, not Sonndy. I don't know why people do this, or mispronounce Jif.

[needaccount]

This, thank you. I just got annoyed about this topic earlier tonight when I watched Superstore lol.

[babarsuhail]

That annoyed me too. I shouted at the screen that "it's jif"

[colossusx]

thank you. and i hate how aggressively dumb people are about it.

[elderpricely]

like this is on remotely the same level as believing the earth is flat lmao jesus

[a_model_citizen]

Are you seriously comparing pronouncing gif with a hard G to being a flat earther???? Lmao

I saw gif because that’s how I’ve always said it and literally no one cares irl

[aristobrit]

What the two things have in common is people deliberately being in denial about reality. It amuses me.

Literally, people who know how it's supposed to be pronounced are snickering behind your back irl

[a_model_citizen]

Are you 12? I’m an adult and generally don’t hang around anyone who’s life involves making fun of other people for saying a word in a way they don’t like

[chomsky]

Let's not be prescriptivist.

Is it mispronunciation if a sizable portion of the population pronounces it with a voiced velar plosive /ɡ/ as opposed to with the affricate /dʒ/?

Or is it a dialectal preference? An alternate pronunciation?

If someone pronounces it /ɡɪf/ , is their interlocutor able to understand without utilizing some kind of conversation repair technique in order to surmise the speaker's meaning?

I'm willing to bet that no, therefore I'm surmising that /ɡɪf/ as a pronunciation is valid, just like any other word where a community of users prefers one pronunciation over the other.

[aristobrit]

LOL. The person who invented the technology knows how to pronounce it and it's like Jif. Since when do people get to go around and "prefer" the wrong pronunciation? Go right ahead, the rest of us will snicker behind your back.

[chomsky]

I see.

So what you're saying is you don't know shit about linguistics.

[aristobrit]

No, I'm saying it's pronounced like Jif and people who choose to mispronounce it are silly. I don't have to twist myself into a pretzel to try and explain why the people who are wrong do what they do.

Trvmp got elected, which means a lot of people voted for him. Communities of users can be wrong all over the place, it isn't restricted to word pronunciation.

My Latin and French teachers are laughing right now.

[thebloomroom]

agreed