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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 3 Jan 1995.

                            
    
    
Re: GIF prononciation.  Word from the CREATOR!
    
                        


                                            

                

            

        


    

        

            

                

                    
Re: GIF prononciation.  Word from the CREATOR!

                    

                        From Robin Forster <al1...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA>
                        · alt.ascii-art
                        · 3 Jan 1995 06:47                                                    · View full thread
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In a previous posting, Bilbo Baggins (bma...@dolphin.upenn.edu) writes:
> Matthew Z. Rascoff (Mat...@nyo.com) wrote:
> : i was one of the people at compuserve who wrote up the gif format. it is
> : pronounec witha soft "g"
> 
> 
> : sorry folks, this ends it
> 
> 
> No. I'm sorry, Matt. This ends nothing.  When you create something and 
> send it out into the great wide world, you of necessity give up some of 
> your power over it.
> 

None of your arguments make sense.  Its pronounced with a soft G.
Everyone I know pronounces it this way.



                    

                

            

        


        

            

                

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From: al1...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Robin Forster)
Subject: Re: GIF prononciation.  Word from the CREATOR!
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Date: Tue, 3 Jan 1995 06:47:07 GMT
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