Re: GIF?

In article <3dt0rk$l0...@crl3.crl.com> sir...@crl.com (Josh Buchbinder) writes:
>On 28 Dec 1994 08:14:57 -0600, Diki Shamlian Gust (dik...@MCS.COM) said:
>:>Benjamin Ledsham (ble...@shore.net) wrote:
>:>: In article <pIr...@primenet.com>, ina...@primenet.com wrote:
>
>:>: > You can't trust anyone now adays!  It doesn't make sense to be
>:>: > pronounced 'jif'!  Graphic is a hard G, why would you change it to
>:>: > a soft G in the abreviation?
>
>:>: The "g" is pronounced as a "j" because it is followed by an "i" as in
>:>: "giraffe" or "ginger".  The same holds true if the "g" is followed by an
>:>: "e" as in "gelatin" or "gem".  There are exceptions, but this is the
>:>: general rule.
>
>:>My suspicion is that it has nothing to do with the general rules of
>:>pronunciation.  (Or that "Graphic" is a hard "G".)  I presume that
>:>initially people just said "gee" "eye" "eff", and the more familiar
>:>they became with it and the faster they said it, the more it elided 
>:>into "jif".  
>
>I think the main problem, and a common one, is that you all are trying to 
>pronounce an acronym!  You wouldn't say "Siyah", you say "C.I.A.".  Just 
>because this particualy acronym happens to make a pronouncable word 
>doesn't mean that it should be pronounced, but if you are going to 
>pronounce it, it should be pronounced as it's SPELLED, completely 
>ignoring the original words that it is shortened from.
>
>That's what I think anyway.
>					-sd
>
>
>-- 
>"Better weapons lead to better and better weapons, until the earth is a
>      grenade with the fuse burning."
>                                    -WSB

The people in our area who speak of them pronounce them with a hard G.

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