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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 5 Jan 1995.
Re: GIF prononciation. Word from the CREATOR!

Re: GIF prononciation. Word from the CREATOR!

On Dec 31, 1994, Bilbo Baggins (BB) expostulated,
O{+>Matthew Z. Rascoff (Mat...@nyo.com) wrote:
O{+>: i was one of the people at compuserve who wrote up the gif format. it is
O{+>: pronounec witha soft "g"
O{+>
O{+>
O{+>: sorry folks, this ends it
O{+>
O{+>
O{+>No. I'm sorry, Matt. This ends nothing.

Don't you people have anything better to do?  Who actually _gives a flying
fig_ how other people pronounce it?  Jeeeezus!  Get over it!  Pronounce
it however you like, and let this thread die.

--
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 /     \  |--| [__] |--' |--' ==== |--<     Or are they all in our mind?
/_.^ ^._\                                   It all comes out in the wash
   \@/     hop...@loreli.ftl.fl us          In time." - Prince

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From: hop...@loreli.ftl.fl.us (Ed Blount)
Subject: Re: GIF prononciation.  Word from the CREATOR!
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Date: Thu, 5 Jan 1995 00:28:03 GMT
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