Re: GIF prononciation. Word from the CREATOR!

Berton Corson (g91...@huey.csun.edu) wrote:
: Timmy (tsh...@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
: > Okay, finally.  I got sick of everyone here saying "gif" (hard G) and
: > so I ran my CSHOW, got Bob Berry's email address from the end credits,
: > and asked him myself how the thing is pronounced.  My mail:
: > -----
: I never understood why it is supposed to be pronounced 'jif', anyway.
: Reason, GIF stands for 'graphical interface format'.  The word
: 'graphical' has a hard 'g', so logic would have it that 'gif' would
: have a hard 'g' also.  We don't pronounce graphical, 'jraphical',
: do we??

	So then, how do you pronounce the word "scuba"?
S.elf
C.ontained
U.nderwater
B.reathing
A.pparatus

	now, is it "sc_oo_ba" or "sc_uh_ba"?   ...or do you prefer to
pronounce that other word "oo_nderwater"? =^)

	I have and always will pronounce it like the peanut butter.
(unless you offer me a million to switch over. =^)  My friend says it
the other way, but we don't get into holy-wars about it.  Whichever
way either of us says it, the other will know what he was talking about.

	If anything, the fact that it irritates some people
	so much as to go ballistic is more incentive for me
	to say it peanut-butter-style. >=^)

...now I can see one of the reasons the rec group went moderated. =^)

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