RE: Do choosy mother mothers choose GIF?

Subject: RE: Do choosy mother mothers choose GIF?
From: Scott Browne <sbbish -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:58:48 -0700 (PDT)


Cool! Acronyms don't need to conform to any pronunciation devices??
Excellent! Then I'll just pronounce GIF as "squark". It sounds cool
that way.

And just because the people who invented the name have said how it
should be pronounced, that's no reason to do it their way. So whenever
I meet someone new and they tell me their name, I can pronounce it
however I want.

Scott
(pronounced "skot", but I'm sure all you "hard G" people out there will
chose to pronounce my name differently than the way I want it
pronounced.)


--- "Grant, Christopher" <CGrant -at- glhec -dot- org> wrote:
>
> > I see there's already been a bunch of answers to this, but FWIW,
> I've
> > heard that you should use the soft "G" because it's followed
> > by an "I."
>
> How about "gill"? "Gifford"? Plus, it's an acronym and thus doesn't
> necessarily need to conform to any pronounciation devices.
>
> I agree with the poster who said it's a hard G, as in "graphic" as in
> "graphic interchange format."



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