More People Pronounce "Gif" with Hard "G" Sound
By Carmen Schwierking / October 22, 2014Despite what the creators of the media form have said, 70% of people pronounce GIF as “GHIF” with a hard “G” sound instead of a “J” sound.Mashable released the results of their 30,000 person survey about commonly mispronounced tech words and found overwhelming majorities with each.GIF, which stands for Graphics Interchange Format, has been a heated pronunciation debate since 1987.