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Re: GIF prononciation.  Word from the CREATOR!
    
                        


                                            

                

            

        


    

        

            

                

                    
Re: GIF prononciation.  Word from the CREATOR!

                    

                        From Vasilios Pilarinos <vqp...@is2.nyu.edu>
                        · alt.ascii-art
                        · 28 Dec 1994 18:29                                                    · View full thread
                                            

                

            

        


        

            

                

                    

                        
Timmy (tsh...@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
: To answer your first question: because it's wrong.  To answer your second,
: to keep newbies from sounding like newbies.  Third: it's a widely used 
: word, and one would hope that the majority of users would get it right.
: GIF probably won't be used "a few years" down the road, but it's been around
: for 8 years now, and certainly seems pretty prevalent.  Let's try and
: say it properly, shall we?

	Properly? It's an acronym, for Chrissakes. Acronyms are supposed 
to sound like the words they represent, regardless of what the inventor 
of the acronym says. If I start an acronym GOL and pronounced it TURKEY, 
would you pronounce it turkey as well just because I say so?

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