Re: GIF?
From Diki Shamlian Gust <dik...@MCS.COM>
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· 28 Dec 1994 14:14 · View full thread
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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".
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