It’s pronounced GIF.
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3 жыл бұрынIs there a "right" way to pronounce it? And why is it so complicated? •
Written with Molly Ruhl and Gretchen McCulloch. Gretchen's podcast has an episode all about this: lingthusiasm.com/post/1801539...
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REFERENCES:
Buck, S. 2014. 70% of People Worldwide Pronounce 'GIF' With a Hard 'G'. mashable.com/2014/10/21/mispr...
O'Leary, A. (2013, May 21). An Honor for the Creator of the GIF. New York Times. Retrieved from bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/0...
Olsen, S. The Gif Pronunciation Page. web.archive.org/web/202002251...
Baio, A. 2014. ‘JIF’ Is the Format. ‘GIF’ Is the Culture. / jif-is-the-format-gif-...
McCulloch, G. 2015. Why the pronunciation of gif really can go either way. www.mentalfloss.com/article/6...
Dow, M. 2020. It's 'gif and gif': The english lexicon goes both ways. mcdowlinguist.github.io/2020/...
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@TomScottGo 3 жыл бұрын
I realised after upload that I slipped up here: if you pay close attention, you can tell the way I pronounce GIF. Ah well! Also, subtitling this was an interesting job...
@fellowketchup4458 3 жыл бұрын
Gif or gif
@kyium_ 3 жыл бұрын
1 month ago, tom really makes sure his content is top quality.
@aravindsai2409 3 жыл бұрын
Why does it say your comment is 1 month old?
@theomaddison8689 3 жыл бұрын
1 month ago
@christoforusidas512 3 жыл бұрын
1 month ago?
@KrBme78 3 жыл бұрын
The obvious solution is to start pronouncing it "yiff" so that no one gets to be happy.
@mtlvmpr 3 жыл бұрын
I'll just call it jaff. "i" from fire. Oh wow I really don't like the word fire.
@dapsychokilla 3 жыл бұрын
id be happy with that
@user-yo1xr3bh1r 3 жыл бұрын
What about iif
@_____alyptic 3 жыл бұрын
I can see some people being happy with that xP
@SomeoneTookAK 3 жыл бұрын
I swear I heard the word "yiff" from somewhere before
@KO9596 3 жыл бұрын
It's prounced 'if'. Everyone knows that real Gs move in silence.
@linc3152 3 жыл бұрын
Like lasagna
@whatsmynameagain7774 3 жыл бұрын
Im dead bury me nicely
@Fattipotato79 3 жыл бұрын
@@whatsmynameagain7774 okay
@maharbensyafritaher4863 3 жыл бұрын
@@whatsmynameagain7774 **grabs shovel** here i go shoveling again
@Axelade 3 жыл бұрын
bravo, good sir
@barco10001 5 ай бұрын
"I promised Maria to get revenge"
@B3nnettB 4 ай бұрын
“You’re wrong, Shadow. That image playing over and over in your head like a gif? It’s not the truth.”
@francemiaou 4 ай бұрын
@@B3nnettB It's pronounce "jiff"
@gamerits 3 ай бұрын
Huh?
@mrssmile5531 3 ай бұрын
@@gamerits .GIF, like the peanut butter. The creator said so.
@gamerits 3 ай бұрын
@@mrssmile5531 That's dumb, its Graphics Interchange Format.
@Jather Жыл бұрын
As someone who calls it 'G' 'I' 'F ' I call this an absolute win
@randomgirl7672 11 ай бұрын
I used to say the same... untill one of my friend laughed at me
@vladimirprotein3275 9 ай бұрын
@@randomgirl7672 look him in the eye and laugh back at him, establish dominance
@mousahajtass9667 9 ай бұрын
Makes sense, I mean all three letters are capital
@dragong33k 9 ай бұрын
i started like that
@sander9951 8 ай бұрын
@@mousahajtass9667 and its an acronym so it makes sense
@GrayBlood1331 3 жыл бұрын
Now go after people who draw their "8"s with two circles.
@carpfisherholyghost 3 жыл бұрын
one stoke 8 gang
@a.henderson9559 3 жыл бұрын
I do my "8"s with two circles ;-)
@carpfisherholyghost 3 жыл бұрын
@@a.henderson9559 *_BURN THE WITCH_*
@ojie285 3 жыл бұрын
@@a.henderson9559 ah no wonder MARIA REYNOLDS
@zwolfsmub5008 3 жыл бұрын
Wait, isn't that what everyone does?
@Vedantttt 3 жыл бұрын
The “i” is pronounced “e”, it’s actually Jeff
@KevHCloud 3 жыл бұрын
Goeff
@NarendraWicaksono 3 жыл бұрын
My name's Jeff
@nord9882 3 жыл бұрын
ma name jef
@Mika-rl6gt 3 жыл бұрын
you mean Gef?
@_jakeng_1086 3 жыл бұрын
nah, it's geff
@thenut4221 10 ай бұрын
As a great hedgehog once said “The P in jpeg stand for photographic but i bet you dont say jpheg”
@ruler255 2 ай бұрын
I do
@keyb 2 ай бұрын
Alright I’m gonna start pronouncing it jfeg now.
@pocklord 2 ай бұрын
But the letter P is never pronounced as an F on its own. So this example wouldn't help.
@c.jishnu378 Ай бұрын
Or Lacier.
@c.jishnu378 Ай бұрын
@pocklord what about laacieyer. The correct pronunciation of Laser according to you.
@KoovoParkolainen Жыл бұрын
The funny thing is, when I speak in English, I pronounce it jif, but when I speak in my native language, Finnish, I pronounce it gif.
@fredrikjosefsson3373 Жыл бұрын
As a swede I do the same but might be because we don't have the English J sound in Swedish. So it would be yif instead of jif.
@fawwazcoolify Жыл бұрын
I just realised I do the same thing except my native language is Malay.
@pushkarc28 Жыл бұрын
its so true
@pyropulseIXXI Жыл бұрын
you absolute fool
@crazylordhd98 Жыл бұрын
Same for Slavic languages but I pronounce it like gif in english too
@yourlocalcashregister1123 3 жыл бұрын
How to solve this: anger everyone by switching between both randomly
@Murdocke89 3 жыл бұрын
I do that 😂
@ruthannemarie2668 3 жыл бұрын
Finally someone with sense
@eiko1 3 жыл бұрын
Wouldnt that make everyone happy as well?
@eiko1 3 жыл бұрын
@@mymo_in_Bb even better
@hwanghatesyourbehaviorugh7980 3 жыл бұрын
667
@rkbs3223 3 жыл бұрын
It's pronounced "I" because my GF is nonexistent
@stxriey 3 жыл бұрын
UNDERRATED tf
@Snow_Buddy18 3 жыл бұрын
ACTUALLY UNDERRATED
@switchblade6 3 жыл бұрын
it be like that sometimes
@Autumnly 3 жыл бұрын
This comment is pure genius
@ZNotFound 3 жыл бұрын
Is the "I" pronounced as "I" or "I"?
@SPACE2424 10 ай бұрын
“You’re a beta-male, Sonic”
@puzzlingcentaur Жыл бұрын
I am from Croatia and on my recent travels I met two Canadians who surprised me by pronouncing GIF as JIF....I was so confused. Everyone I knew said "gif".
@themiddleground5263 Жыл бұрын
As a Canadian, I thought Tom was trolling when he said the hard-G was way more popular. I don't know a single person under age 70 that doesn't say JIF.
@dorol6375 Жыл бұрын
Here in Israel, most people say gif, and you're considered out of touch with tech if you say jif
@Sciller4 Жыл бұрын
Makes sense since Croatian spelling is phonetic, and g refers only to "hard" g, while đ refers to "soft" g / j. Al ja sam uvik govorio đif kad sam čuo od drugih na internetu.
@josephwodarczyk977 Жыл бұрын
Everyone you know is wrong then.
@tacticalsocialist8060 Жыл бұрын
@@josephwodarczyk977 that's not how that WORKS!!
@sandro-eliesaad9541 3 жыл бұрын
I'm more impressed that 'laser' is actually an acronym
@MikhailYT 3 жыл бұрын
LABSEOR
@ptt_osc 3 жыл бұрын
wait what
@oktayyildirim2911 3 жыл бұрын
So are "radar", "sonar", and "lidar", but perhaps those aren't as surprising.
@ghaniKSW2 3 жыл бұрын
speaking of which i know it's unrelated but fun fact: i used to not know it's spelled laser and not lazer
@Portableholefromthefuture 3 жыл бұрын
Wait laser is an acronym?
@poptat 3 жыл бұрын
'It's GIF, not GIF.' 'It's LeviOsa, not LeviosA.'
@eiko1 3 жыл бұрын
r0n
@DannyGz99 3 жыл бұрын
every 60 seconds in africa, a minute passes.
@ryanc9287 3 жыл бұрын
Now I'm going to bed before one of you comes up with another clever idea to get us killed, or worse _expelled_
@idontcare7197 3 жыл бұрын
That's not how the quote goes, it's "it's leviOsa, not leviosAr"
@ryanc9287 3 жыл бұрын
@@idontcare7197 I would say LeviosAr
@Kastorul_ Жыл бұрын
Honestly, my take-away from this video is that "LASER" is an acronym. You learn something new everyday!
@hizukinozomi Жыл бұрын
“I promised Maria to get revenge”
@Psychol-Snooper 3 жыл бұрын
You're all crazy. It's pronounced "laurel."
@doughboywhine 3 жыл бұрын
def yanny bro dont know what you're on
@Diathan 3 жыл бұрын
what do you mean yanny?
@doughboywhine 3 жыл бұрын
@@Diathan its def pronounced yanny dont even try to lie to me dude
@MS-xk1ne 3 жыл бұрын
I laughed harder at this comment than I'm comfortable to admit. 🤣
@thefatcat1366 3 жыл бұрын
Its lanny 🙄
@Loki-ru4no 3 жыл бұрын
Imagine if God came down and said “it’s pronounced ‘Jod’” and left.
@hexaltheninjawow9531 3 жыл бұрын
Why did this make me laugh?
@powerplayer75 3 жыл бұрын
@@hexaltheninjawow9531 because its funny
@WOW-gi9ww 3 жыл бұрын
Lmaoooooo
@AlisonBryen 3 жыл бұрын
I truly laughed out loud at this...Jesus...or is that Gesus?
@tfwthewhen 3 жыл бұрын
@@AlisonBryen hay-soos
@rwilson4073 Жыл бұрын
I would say gif as in gift is the more common pronunciation because the word gift exists, which has gif in it, therefore gif will be pronounced gif.
@MasiKarimi Жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot for the info! Really appreciate it!
@ravioliisthebestpasta3763 3 жыл бұрын
I just say “gajif” to piss both sides off equally
@applsauce_spl 3 жыл бұрын
you've made enemies with us all
@cellocoversimprov5660 3 жыл бұрын
Why not jagif?
@lunarpitch 3 жыл бұрын
i pronounce it as 'Yif' to make everybody upset
@Crygear 3 жыл бұрын
@@lunarpitch finally
@lunarpitch 3 жыл бұрын
@@Crygear subscribe for more half assed comedy FYI for those with no sense of humor, this is clearly a joke, i do not endorse self advertisement in inappropriate situations only do so when permitted thank you for coming to my TED Talk have a good day
@redsantelices8498 3 жыл бұрын
"It's GIF!" "No, it's JIF" Me: G.I.F
@KentuckyFriedChildren 3 жыл бұрын
The Notorious G.I.F
@panko605 3 жыл бұрын
*“THATS WHAT I SAID”*
@Tetopettenson1 3 жыл бұрын
"Why tf are they bringing up peanut butter?"
@ketsu9670 3 жыл бұрын
this
@dippertrees 3 жыл бұрын
same!
@Congiary Жыл бұрын
I pronounced it Jiff naturally. Now I try to avoid conversations where that word might appear. If I have to, I say Giff because it's the Giff people who like to start an argument about it.
@derpherpington23 Жыл бұрын
If someone is saying the word gif to me then I probably don't want to be a part of that conversation
@shpup Жыл бұрын
I say it like jiff as well by instinct. we're automatically seen as weird little contrarians if we pronounce it that way so I also have been shamed into silence and try to say it with a hard G as often as possible 😞Im tired of hearing the peanut butter joke
@Rapture78922 Ай бұрын
It’s the exact opposite for me . The jif people start complaining and start the argument
@emememememememememe 8 ай бұрын
can you believe that when I read the title of the video I was like "ooh, he's saying it's pronounced GIF right in the title, just like that?" there's no hope for my brain
@KarstenBelt 3 жыл бұрын
I agree, it's gif for sure
@Uchoobdood 3 жыл бұрын
I have to disagree, it is in fact pronounced gif actually.
@seanl7503 3 жыл бұрын
No no, it's gif!
@Aryan-ck9lv 3 жыл бұрын
Believe me it’s gif!
@greatfate 3 жыл бұрын
Nah, yall trippin dawg. It's gif.
@kkg288 3 жыл бұрын
umm actually it's gif, dumb
@gothfennec 3 жыл бұрын
imagine god comes down to earth and says "it's pronounced jod" and leaves
@acutecat6781 3 жыл бұрын
god is dead
@EumosVideos 3 жыл бұрын
no
@LShaver947 3 жыл бұрын
God isn't real
@EumosVideos 3 жыл бұрын
@@LShaver947 You must be fun at parties.
@Smitology 3 жыл бұрын
@@LShaver947 I agree with you, but still, you just ruined the joke
@TnseWlms 11 ай бұрын
I always knew "Jif" was a brand of peanut butter and am allergic to peanuts, so I always pronounced the filename "gif."
@sgconnhardcore 10 ай бұрын
I'm not allergic but it's the same reasoning for me.
@EvenWhyProductions Жыл бұрын
This puts me at ease
@ograndecanalha 3 жыл бұрын
most shocking things I learned today is how laser and scuba are acronyms
@DiamondsAreForeverLOLcheeseBUR 3 жыл бұрын
do you not know what acronyms mean
@lightlie_ 3 жыл бұрын
@@DiamondsAreForeverLOLcheeseBUR do you?
@DiamondsAreForeverLOLcheeseBUR 3 жыл бұрын
@@lightlie_ i didnt i guess
@kanjakan 3 жыл бұрын
@@DiamondsAreForeverLOLcheeseBUR lmao
@syweb2 3 жыл бұрын
@@DiamondsAreForeverLOLcheeseBUR Most people don't learn that they stand for something, and just assume that they are standalone words.
@GrimOakheart 3 жыл бұрын
I read the title: "It’s pronounced GIF." "Oh hey, so Tom is on my side" ...oh wait
@1Kapuchu100 3 жыл бұрын
Did the exact some thing. Confirmation bias is a helluva thing!
@blinded6502 3 жыл бұрын
I read it as jiff. Send help.
@OrcSmithz 3 жыл бұрын
It’s Jiff
@driveasandwich6734 3 жыл бұрын
@@OrcSmithz Did you watch the video?
@leadnitrate2194 3 жыл бұрын
@@driveasandwich6734 doesn't matter. It's jif.
@nathanfaith1341 10 ай бұрын
People that say Jif going to heaven and calling god "Jod" immediately getting sent to hell
@goldgalaxy2224 Жыл бұрын
This title is absolutley brilliant
@thejadedcommenter7371 3 жыл бұрын
Were English phonetically consistent, this wouldn’t be a problem
@adolfojasso796 3 жыл бұрын
@@Lunarfox for pronunciation, spanish has very consistent rules
@roseCatcher_ 3 жыл бұрын
@@adolfojasso796 Wrong. Spanish grammar isn't even consistent between two neighboring countries. A consistent language would be Esperanto (a failure) or Sanskrit (nobody speaks anymore).
@johnsherfey3675 3 жыл бұрын
@@roseCatcher_ sanskrit is still spoken and technically a living language, its judt extremely rare.
@DarkRizzard69 3 жыл бұрын
@@Lunarfox what is constructed languages? Isn't every language made by us(I am not gonna google it)
@revonfyll 3 жыл бұрын
@@Lunarfox Greek is. You can learn to read every greek word in less than a day. Every letter has one sound and sounds the same no matter what. There are some rules here and there that mix things up but there are clear symbols in each word to show how it is pronounced. Spelling on the other hand is more complicated, but as far as how each word sounds there is not a single controversial word in Greek.
@schmoyoho 2 жыл бұрын
The perfect clickbait doesnt exi- -
@Nasho3 2 жыл бұрын
🤨
@estunpul 2 жыл бұрын
what are you doing here with 1 like
@mrrockystone298 2 жыл бұрын
HII!! I love your vids!
@waitwhatb4 2 жыл бұрын
@@mrrockystone298 no you dont lmao you just want attention from a verified creator
@coolnightstudios852 2 жыл бұрын
@@waitwhatb4 exactly
@cheydinal5401 Күн бұрын
Similarly, in Germany there is a great debate about what article (der, die, das) to give to Nutella. It's obviously "die"
@Inspirator_AG112 Жыл бұрын
I would accept either pronunciation. It is going to be trivial.
@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache 3 жыл бұрын
Moral of the story: It's pronounced GIF
@stormtorch 3 жыл бұрын
here before 10 likes
@minib4800 3 жыл бұрын
Here before 50 likes
@net_lag 3 жыл бұрын
I think I know this guy
@ejt4012 3 жыл бұрын
Bruh no it's pronounced GIF
@SharowbladyeGaymerPorate 3 жыл бұрын
You have an awesome sense of humour
@ABisdoingjustfine 3 жыл бұрын
We should make the G silent and pronounce it as “if”. Nobody wins, that way.
@teraspeXt 3 жыл бұрын
no, that way _you_ win
@ABisdoingjustfine 3 жыл бұрын
@@teraspeXt 😹😹 i like pronouncing it as jif, so I wouldn’t be winning either. 😆
@JonatasAdoM 3 жыл бұрын
We don't want a working compromise, we want to be right while they're wrong!
@Pepper_Jvck 3 жыл бұрын
Chaotic evil
@_stupidbro 3 жыл бұрын
@@ABisdoingjustfine What do you call files with the .JIF file extension?
@Langwyrm 10 ай бұрын
omg i already listened to lingthusiasm but i didnt know it was your co-author
@paulg9042 Жыл бұрын
It's a soft G. I'd agree with anyone who pronounces it with a hard G, but then, we'd both be wrong.
@superholly 3 жыл бұрын
I read the title pronouncing it the way I do (of course) and thought "atta boy".
@puneeeeeeeeeeth 3 жыл бұрын
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
@ItsMePhiliph 3 жыл бұрын
Facts.
@mariafe7050 3 жыл бұрын
So how do you pronounce it?
@GiftedContractor 3 жыл бұрын
I read it pronounced the opposite of how I do and was annoyed before I realized. I think it has to do with how common the way you pronounce it is in your area. I've been "corrected" a lot haha.
@AmnesiaForever 3 жыл бұрын
@@mariafe7050 GIF, with the G.
@frostychips8939 3 жыл бұрын
“Creator of gif says it’s pronounced jif” I recognize the council has made a decision, but given that its a stupid ass decision, I’ve elected to ignore it
@figgynewton5664 3 жыл бұрын
He's a troll
@cool_caitlin 3 жыл бұрын
I understood that reference😃
@lorddragozac 3 жыл бұрын
Sam L Jackson the GOAT
@bellathefe11a 3 жыл бұрын
Facts
@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606 3 жыл бұрын
@@figgynewton5664 I came to the same conclusion after je posted the misspelled slide
@Kitsune-DAS 5 ай бұрын
The true answer is to pronounce it the opposite way from the people around you in the moment just to make them angry
@runenorderhaug7646 Жыл бұрын
I think there is another arguement that you can discuss which is that who invented GIFs? The inventor of it themselves directily or the social invention of it and how they were used from there? While this may be similar to the popularity decideding its pronouciation, it is actually somewhat distinct as it more focuses on how the pronouciation releates to our social invention and usage of the format in conversation
@robmemeoverlord6399 3 жыл бұрын
It’s actually pronounced “Jeff”. If you want to be technical, “Geoff”
@DevastatedLimes 3 жыл бұрын
Where is his hat??
@bimapramudya9926 3 жыл бұрын
Ma nems jeff
@robmemeoverlord6399 3 жыл бұрын
@@bimapramudya9926 mnemjeeeeff (see this guy gets it)
@zZiL341yRj736 3 жыл бұрын
I pronounce Jerk Off.
@KPVextra 3 жыл бұрын
Nice pfp
@ayushawate 3 жыл бұрын
People who pronounce it G.I.F be like " I have no such weakness "
@codyrupp2509 3 жыл бұрын
those people are cowards
@TheTechnoPro 3 жыл бұрын
Technically for them the G is a J, so they are on my side!
@roughshaf7321 3 жыл бұрын
literally what I do
@gagarensesess 3 жыл бұрын
T. G. I. F
@arimaniac 3 жыл бұрын
That's me
@LambdaCreates Ай бұрын
I'll call it "Graphics Interchange Format".
@eTiMaGo Жыл бұрын
For me there's been many words that I have read long before I heard them, and got completely wrong, like awry (thought it was pronounced aw-ree), and my girlfriend, who is also not a native English speaker, used to pronounce awesome as a-wee-some :D
@lyndislegion287 Жыл бұрын
I made the same mistake with awry. Also, it took me a long time to realise that the suffix "-able" isn't at all pronounced like the word "able" so I would pronounce them like "despic-ay-ble" and so on
@patricksullivan6988 Жыл бұрын
Same, regarding "awry"
@dangelowallaceagain 3 жыл бұрын
no actually it's gif
@tessa_hs1827 3 жыл бұрын
DANGELO???
@Awesome241 3 жыл бұрын
YOOOOOOOOOOOO DANGELOO
@emmakjr3276 3 жыл бұрын
you're 10x cooler now
@taroobakhan81 3 жыл бұрын
Wait... DeAngelo??
@denisstrechie9139 3 жыл бұрын
What do you mean? That's not how you spell gif...
@Dradan659 3 жыл бұрын
I've been saying it for years: There's four ways to say "pecan" and no one cares. But there are two ways to say "gif" and everyone gets angry.
@darkseraph2009 3 жыл бұрын
Building the entire english speaking world into two armies makes for a larger conflict than splitting it into four.
@bubbledoubletrouble 3 жыл бұрын
That’s because if you pronounce pecan the wrong way, people will just look at you with pity.
@mudjumper 3 жыл бұрын
@@Lightning-jc6re pee-can pee-kahn peh-can peh-kahn
@jackdaw7792 3 жыл бұрын
@@Lightning-jc6re peecan peecon puhcon puhcan
@astaiannymph 3 жыл бұрын
Actually it's more likely to be because "pecan" pronunciations developed in regional areas and were stable before the internet, whereas "gif" pronunciations are actively developing and are being developed simultaneously everywhere.
@nixthelapin9869 8 ай бұрын
On the point of 2:40, I literally just pronounce it like gift bc it’s literally that minus the t. I just instinctually recognized that similarity and that was that
@salvadormuro7346 Жыл бұрын
I like how he waited till the end to make sure we knew the right way 🤣
@Bexa- 3 жыл бұрын
The inventor of Gif: “It is pronounced Jif” The internet: “I recognize the council has made a decision, but given that it’s a stupid ass decision I have elected to ignore it.”
@Fauziaazim8986 3 жыл бұрын
Decided not elected
@dennishallada890 3 жыл бұрын
How I felt about "cross button"
@Bexa- 3 жыл бұрын
@@Fauziaazim8986 It is elected. I double checked.
@elisei.c.4079 2 жыл бұрын
@@Fauziaazim8986 elected and decided both work in that sentence.
@Big_C_4205 2 жыл бұрын
Jif is easier to say but the internet cockblocks it
@themixgenius1993 3 жыл бұрын
it was only today when I realized SCUBA is an *acronym* and not a single word
@bubbleheadft 3 жыл бұрын
Self contained underwater breathing apparatus my guy
@gravityfallscanada 3 жыл бұрын
I learn that for laser as well... Stupid English language.
@oscarredfearn3492 3 жыл бұрын
WHAT
@jonathanodude6660 3 жыл бұрын
people struggle with that for laser
@costa2k1 3 жыл бұрын
Wow
@Jcc2224 Жыл бұрын
I don't think people would be nearly as passionate about this debate if Jif wasn't already a peanut butter.
@braindawg 2 ай бұрын
Contextually it's much harder to confuse the soft-G GIF with the peanut butter than it is to confuse the hard-G GIF with "gift" (as in, "I sent Tom Scott a GIF last week"). The strongest argument I've heard is that soft-G removes ambiguity for the listener, similar to how the NATO phonetic alphabet (alpha, bravo, charlie, delta, etc.) uses deliberately chosen words that sound dissimilar to each other to prevent them being misheard/confused over spotty radio connections.
@lilmissnorti Жыл бұрын
Schedule and School....that is always my hill I will die on.
@SilentMemer 3 жыл бұрын
I can make my own rules, it's pronounced gif
@eli-vi4fe 3 жыл бұрын
no, its pronounced gif
@MixMatchedMoze 3 жыл бұрын
Its pronouned gif guys
@ceoofantifa6245 3 жыл бұрын
@@MixMatchedMoze no, gif
@gluesniffersunite4719 3 жыл бұрын
Guys, come on. It is pronounce *gif*. Now please stop arguing. :(
@ceoofantifa6245 3 жыл бұрын
@@gluesniffersunite4719 no, gif
@zetahurley294 3 жыл бұрын
see my issue is that .jif is a different file extension, which is ALSO for image files, but differently composed. Pronouncing so to avoid ambiguity it makes more sense to pronounce it with a hard G
@steffenjensen422 3 жыл бұрын
Best and actually only valid argument I've seen so far
@robonator2945 3 жыл бұрын
@@steffenjensen422 Gift. Checkmate, same permutation, only one additional letter as a suffix, not a vowel.
@Cloiss_ 3 жыл бұрын
@@robonator2945 wait until you find out about sword and word or laughter and slaughter (I'm team /g/, but comparison to gift doesn't work as an argument)
@robonator2945 3 жыл бұрын
@@Cloiss_ guess what, both of your examples have letters BEFORE the premutation. Gift has it after.
@TheGrumbliestPuppy 3 жыл бұрын
This is great, but also: The letter "g" should always be hard. Otherwise, whats the point of "j"?
@davisdestroyer1883 Жыл бұрын
POV: you have said Jif ur entire life but just now finding out that people said gif
@bilgriffin Жыл бұрын
I call it an MPT for Moving Picture Thingy
@ElloItsSmee 3 жыл бұрын
Just call it "tiny low res repetitive video" or tlrrv's for short.
@kwaziness 3 жыл бұрын
so, tuh•lurrvs or tuh tuh•luh•ruh•ruvs
@ElloItsSmee 3 жыл бұрын
@@kwaziness tuh•lurrves
@MunyuShizumi 3 жыл бұрын
GIFs aren't necessarily tiny, low-res, or animated. The only thing that's certain is a limited color palette of 256 colors per image. Funnily enough, it's also a lossless format technically speaking.
@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606 3 жыл бұрын
But is that tlerv or tlur-rev?
@MrBucky-ns9tt 3 жыл бұрын
@@ElloItsSmee nah it’s tuh•tuh•luh•ruh•ruvs ur wrong mate
@joseflabajo7739 3 жыл бұрын
guys wtf you people are all wrong it’s obviously pronounced “dërfüytł”
@eebertdeebert 3 жыл бұрын
o-o
@Big_Gcoem 3 жыл бұрын
It's pronounced đģiůłīœųýķc
@thebag6921 3 жыл бұрын
Its pronounced ¥£》》○☆`~}♧₩€¡¤▪
@igorscollection5876 3 жыл бұрын
Its Pronounced Dkr484&kr4)2&/&:kr:l):&:@998
@fluffuz 3 жыл бұрын
Underrated
@gevinblue Жыл бұрын
You know the arguement boutta go down when Tom Scott even talking about it
@shannonjones8877 Жыл бұрын
I feel like it just makes the most sense to pronounce it like gift with the t dropped.
@Leg3nd-27 2 жыл бұрын
When you guys say “jif” I just think of peanut butter.
@peachiequeen3897 2 жыл бұрын
Choosy moms choose GIF
@RustyGator 2 жыл бұрын
If anything thats a plus
@idanturgeman2549 2 жыл бұрын
Jeez
@socks2441 2 жыл бұрын
i thought jif was a toilet cleaner. stranegly i think i still pronunce gif jif. i actually dont know anymore though.
@Papyrus_Basket 2 жыл бұрын
Same
@kseniar326 3 жыл бұрын
I once read that the "g" is pronounced like the "g" in "garage"
@adwinjoseph3773 3 жыл бұрын
This is so underrated
@squilliamfancy 3 жыл бұрын
this is an interesting joke bc i think it truly depends on what english dialect you speak! in mine, the second "g" in garage is actually a slightly different consonant than the one in question for the gif debate, /ʒ/ instead of /dʒ/ (the one in the video), but i think british english might pronounce it as /dʒ/
@brianfrost303 3 жыл бұрын
English people pronounce garage as garridge though.
@badcornflakes6374 2 жыл бұрын
The creator though...
@kobe95wazzup 2 жыл бұрын
Jarage
@breakatmo Жыл бұрын
Something I feel might be relevant about the acronym comparisons is that GIF is the only one that starts with the contentious letter.
@racer72 Жыл бұрын
I worked with a couple fellows, Gilbert and Geoffrey. They could agree on this either.
@AconWasHere 2 жыл бұрын
This reminds me of the time Uno tried telling people how Uno was "properly" played and people just ignored it
@ludos1963 2 жыл бұрын
Uno belongs to this type of game where the only real rules are the one made by the host of the game in the start.. no written rules are ever gonna be valid
@tenthyukillme2049 2 жыл бұрын
“Thanks for the moving image Steve but we’ll take it from here”
@Petaurista13 2 жыл бұрын
Which is hilarious as Uno didn't even invited Uno. It's literally Macau but with dedicated deck instead of "normal" playing cards.
@Petaurista13 2 жыл бұрын
@@ludos1963 yes. When I play Macau we usually agree on which cards are action cards as it varies among people.
@qorso 2 жыл бұрын
@@tenthyukillme2049 whats that from?
@multisplace3783 2 жыл бұрын
The way I remember is that there's a peanut butter brand named "Jif."
@averageperson436 2 жыл бұрын
Correct it's the only peanut butter I like
@comp.lex4 2 жыл бұрын
The inventors used this as a way of helping people remember what the correct pronunciation was, saying "choosy developers choose gif" (a play on the peanut butter slogan, choosy moms choose jif)
@campbellholt1220 2 жыл бұрын
Or a bleach based cleaner
@bradleywalton970 2 жыл бұрын
Yup. I always say “gif isn’t peanut butter”
@prorocco6449 2 жыл бұрын
I have allergies
@henrydoveton775 Жыл бұрын
As a dyslexic. I can say, Tom Scott can make anything fun.
@kenrick5704 Жыл бұрын
I love how he pronounces gif with 43 syllables at the end (I counted)
@DiggyPT Жыл бұрын
gif is pronounced My co-author Gretchen McCulloch has a great podcast called Linguthusiasm-
@fenhen 3 жыл бұрын
I read the title out loud and then immediately thought “Tom agrees with the way I pronounce it!” God, I’m stupid.
@Mualskii 3 жыл бұрын
Lmao dw me too
@charlieo-o267 3 жыл бұрын
how did you pronounce it?
@Mualskii 3 жыл бұрын
@@charlieo-o267 for me its pronounced with a “J” sound, (jif)
@charlieo-o267 3 жыл бұрын
@@Mualskii I just spell it *out lmao
@Wick9876 3 жыл бұрын
Tom doesn't disagree with the way you pronounce it. Or the way you pronounce GIF either.
@theodorebs7512 3 жыл бұрын
This video in short : "Listen, I don't have much time. GIF is pronounced as........."
@Meminjo 3 жыл бұрын
@Jedem Das Seine Based? Based on what?
@dermathze700 3 жыл бұрын
@@Meminjo The comment is based on the video
@laurasullivan77 3 жыл бұрын
@@addibbaaj2 based
@kakdibombom Жыл бұрын
The correct answer is that it doesn't matter as long as you know what the other person is talking about.
@insertnamehere9718 8 ай бұрын
Just so long as no-one starts saying ‘jigabyte’
@M3L0618 3 жыл бұрын
Shawn: [Yawns and opens a GIF] Shaun: [Yauns and opens a JIF] Sean: [Yeans and opens a YIFF]
@user-rl4tg2mr9n 3 жыл бұрын
Shawn: I saw that Shaun I sau that Sean: I sea that
@dereismann8275 3 жыл бұрын
Sean is a furry
@vyladence 3 жыл бұрын
yiff you say? 👀
@arcioko2142 3 жыл бұрын
Sean is indeed a furry
@adud5475 3 жыл бұрын
Sean: reject humanity become letex furry
@yiff 3 жыл бұрын
At least we don't have people saying "it's pronounced yif"
@xxslayer255xx 3 жыл бұрын
My friend says yif
@yiff 3 жыл бұрын
@@xxslayer255xx I'd say "oh no" but I like their taste
@bdblazer6400 3 жыл бұрын
Lucky thre is no yiff image format
@spikerthedragonbear 3 жыл бұрын
Yiff
@loudwhitenoise_ 3 жыл бұрын
zyif
@Emily-zj4yy Жыл бұрын
Gift without the "T"
@MrGame-mo3cp Жыл бұрын
Thx, now i can beat my friends in linguistic arguments more.
@ItIsLuna 2 жыл бұрын
Good news and bad news: So apparently gif was a word used in old, like really old English. The bad news, it’s pronounced “yiff”
@lucky2lucky 2 жыл бұрын
oh no
@annafirth6738 2 жыл бұрын
What did it mean? Presumably wasn't used for ye olde memes.
@ItIsLuna 2 жыл бұрын
@@annafirth6738 Just looked it up, it was apparently a type of poison. It was hard to find a definition but it does exist
@annafirth6738 2 жыл бұрын
@@ItIsLuna Cool, ty for getting back to me I was curious.
@buhgingo2933 2 жыл бұрын
@@ItIsLuna that’s why some furry sites I go to say “pick your poison”
@NotTheRambo 3 жыл бұрын
Me who always pronounces it "G - I - F" : I don't have such weaknesses.
@miratarnish6316 3 жыл бұрын
It's an acronym, so logically that's what we all should be doing
@cloud5464 3 жыл бұрын
I used to do that until my friend called it “gif”
@Ivan-fy3pr 3 жыл бұрын
@@miratarnish6316 That's the opposite of how acronyms work. They're acronyms BECAUSE they're supposed to be pronounceable like regular words, while abbreviations are not. Ex.: NSA vs NASA or GIF vs GSE.
@rc_woshimao957 3 жыл бұрын
just found: the strongest human on planet
@rachelLN 3 жыл бұрын
Me too lmaoooo :D
@Cycles_logix Жыл бұрын
2:00 Tom... this cracked me up XDDD
@IAmFROMDENMARK 3 ай бұрын
Bro switched to Shadow's side 💀
@boriz_ 3 жыл бұрын
I'm tired of this gif-gif polarization. We need more an independent gif.
@HarryRobins 3 жыл бұрын
Well APNG and WebP are much much better than gifs in terms of compression.
@NolePTR 3 жыл бұрын
It's called WEBM.
@jolene9756 3 жыл бұрын
gee eye eff
@MicroChirp 3 жыл бұрын
@@HarryRobins WebP is cancer, png is king
@Casedilla73 3 жыл бұрын
My logic is that JIF is a peanut butter, GIF is better to make it less confusing.
@theunknownguy1527 3 жыл бұрын
JIF is definitely a peanut butter
@sirbaconbuster 3 жыл бұрын
Between that and the fact that to clarify you are pronouncing it with a soft g you have to respell it as JIF instead of the original spelling, I’d say it’s definitely GIF. Or, if you just cannot be bothered with starting that argument with someone, you can say it’s pronounce like the ‘g’ in “garage”
@Casedilla73 3 жыл бұрын
@@sirbaconbuster I agree
@niyah000 3 жыл бұрын
@@sirbaconbuster There are two 'g's in garage and they both sound different, just proving the fact that g(and just about every letter in the English alphabet) have such little consistency in how they're pronounced.
@sirbaconbuster 3 жыл бұрын
@ItsAnimeDealWithIt Welcome to the joke.
@bartoszkonieczny3238 Жыл бұрын
THOSE ARE SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG'S EXAMPLES TOO OMGGG
@GGamerLiam Жыл бұрын
Giraffe in the thumbnail Me: is that a Tap Trial reference?
@shapeshifterk 3 жыл бұрын
Jif is a peanut butter brand, and it feels weird to me to call gifs the same pronunciation as that so I use the g sound.
@zapdara 3 жыл бұрын
It's also spelled differently.
@shapeshifterk 3 жыл бұрын
@@zapdara Yes, but it's pronounced the same way as GIF, if pronounced like a "j" rather than a "g" so it's just easier for me.
@naverilllang 3 жыл бұрын
Except it was intentionally named after the peanut butter
@Mecal21 3 жыл бұрын
@@naverilllang not sure if this is true but it wouldn't make sense as it is an acronym that actually makes sense
@ramesty89 3 жыл бұрын
I find it weird to call a GIF close to the word "gift," so I am and always will call it jiff.
@toastboi138 2 жыл бұрын
Imagine one day the clouds part and god comes down to say only "it's pronounced jod" before leaving again
@roreaper3551 2 жыл бұрын
Tried renaming god in DnD with my friends to jod. Ended up becoming John
@griffinoleary1694 2 жыл бұрын
@@roreaper3551 soundds fun
@papanurgle8393 2 жыл бұрын
It'd vindicate the Roman's actions.
@cwkapiushon 2 жыл бұрын
every day we stray further from jod
@NeverOutslayed 2 жыл бұрын
Stole from r/askreddit
@locomotivetrainstation6053 Жыл бұрын
1:27 omg thanks for acknowledging that. So many idiots use the "jraphics" argument
@MentalVideographer 3 ай бұрын
Ultimately, what I think it comes down to is that there's no inherent reason it has to be either. I think soft g has a slightly stronger claim to having a 'right' to be pronounced that way, hard g 'looks' slightly more like how a word would be pronounced, but ultimately, people will say the word how they feel like saying it. Which is... Listen. Say it how you like, but by no means pretend that you have the inherently 'correct' choice. You have *a* choice. Nothing more, nothing less.
@vicenzo33333 3 жыл бұрын
It's so funny watching this being from a country where everyone says GIF
@ZTheMoki 3 жыл бұрын
How do they pronounce it, gif or gif
@NoNameAtAll2 3 жыл бұрын
гифка
@vicenzo33333 3 жыл бұрын
@@ZTheMoki gif
@eazy___4032 3 жыл бұрын
You monster
@Jelte_Dijkmans 3 жыл бұрын
Here we say Gif with a dutch G
@BryceEdwardBrown 3 жыл бұрын
I've waited 8 years for this
@spywalkz1 3 жыл бұрын
I've waited 69 years for this
@pyxui4018 3 жыл бұрын
*i've waited my whole life*
@KingGaming-gw7ks 3 жыл бұрын
I've waited now
@william_d 3 жыл бұрын
Wait longer we shall
@Fatez 3 жыл бұрын
So ur wait is complete
@VincentAzure Жыл бұрын
GIFfers: "it's pronounced gif" JIFfers: "no it's pronounced jif" me, an intellectual: "Ji-ayef"
@gaitocalico Жыл бұрын
GIF is just a Gift without "t".
@lyndislegion287 Жыл бұрын
trough/through/thorough laughter/slaughter sword/word teak/steak read/tread bear/beard hat/hate Only one letter difference. Completely different pronounciations.
@bluishred7063 3 жыл бұрын
This debate's never going to end Let's just gif up
@TennessineGD 3 жыл бұрын
I think you mean "jif up".
@mUndertakerg 3 жыл бұрын
I see what you did there 👀
@OrcSmithz 3 жыл бұрын
Don’t you mean never gonna Jif you up
@mikeward1701 3 жыл бұрын
If you’re from the UK and of a certain age; gif is a file format, jif is a cleaning product.
@pewnit 3 жыл бұрын
Never gonna gif you up
@tearsintheraincantfeelthep475 3 жыл бұрын
English-speakers: ugh... is it /gif/ or /jif/ Ukrainians: 'HIFKA'
@BoingoInstaller 3 жыл бұрын
Exactly!
@konstantinkh 3 жыл бұрын
To quote Frasier, "Oh, yes, Niles, that's just what we need, a fourth language!" I do wonder how many other pronunciation of that 'g' are there, though, across the world.
@Liggliluff 3 жыл бұрын
I haven't heard any English speakers calling it /jif/, as yiff is something else. However, they do agure about calling it /dʒif/.
@vovkaputka 3 жыл бұрын
@@Liggliluff ты душный (you are boring)
@d.l.7416 3 жыл бұрын
@@vovkaputka if someone uses / / then they are trying to use IPA so there is an exact way to write it, and /j/ = y, /dʒ/ = j (in juice) well / / is meant to be less specific than [ ] but it would never make /j/ mean [dʒ]
@iamcookie1170 9 ай бұрын
Guys it's easy, it's pronounced like the G in gigantic
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