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I don't think anyone really thinks gif is pronounced 'jif'.
They just pretend they do, to wind people up and for attention.
It's how I've always pronounced it though. For decades. I don't really care if it riles people up because it feels weird af saying it the other way. Also, the creators say it's jif so it doesn't really matter what anyone thinks that's just what it is lol
But JIF is another file format (JPEG interchange format), so the creator was stupid to say GIF is pronounced as jif.