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It’s not the guy who said it first it’s the guy who made a file format and chose a name that was the same as the peanut butter company…
Are you seriously this narcissistic that you can’t admit the way you say something is technically wrong? A product was made with a specific name and you choose to say it contrary to that way because it conveys the information it’s a perfectly acceptable way of pronouncing it but if you can’t admit that you are technically wrong in something so stupid and benign as a pronunciation of an acronym then you might have a problem.
I’ll even go first and announce to all the people on this thread that I am in facts not gods gift to the world and sometimes pronounce words differently than their correct pronunciations because the correct ones are less fun.
Hey I'm the one who said it's the only argument that holds any water, I just already have water. I lost this argument to my brother over a decade ago and have admitted I was wrong since then. Language is only valuable insofar as you're able to make your point understood to the people you're talking to. There is no correct way to say anything except the way that your audience understands. I'll give you that the 1987 CompuServ file was pronounced with a soft g (seemingly due to lazy marketing), but the word has gone beyond that product. As others have mentioned, most "gifs" are not even in that format anymore and haven't been for years and years. The majority of people using the word don't really know what it means and certainly don't know or care how it was coined. But if it makes you feel better, I promise the next time I'm buying a .gif in 1987, I'll use the soft g.
If you're getting this upset about something you admit is stupid and benign then you might have a problem.