• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    The ones that have heard it pronounce it jif

    I don’t see why you’re so insistent on being wrong

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      9 months ago

      On the slim chance you’re arguing in good faith and are just unaware. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciation_of_GIF

      A number of analysis have been done on this subject. Polling showed that more people pronounce with a hard g. Most dictionaries list a hard g as the primary pronunciation. More words that begin with gi use the hard g.

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      9 months ago

      It’s the children who are wrong, all three billion of them. The only ones who are right are me and my friends. We don’t have any justification or valid argument, we’re just right because we say we are.

      That’s you. That’s what you sound like.

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          9 months ago

          Still do. To be clear, I’m talking about the human species, not like moths or turtles or something. Smart phones are pretty common, actually.