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Dave Dempsey

Dave digs the Dirt, webtips, IT-memes and other online geekery. Also as Podcast.

24. 5. 2013 - 11:53

Today's Webtip: Don't say GIF

Jonathan Mann bravely addresses a touchy topic.

You may have heard that Steve Wilhite took the internet to task for mispronouncing the name of his baby. Yes, it has finally been made clear that the right way to pronounce the shortened version of the Graphics Interchange Format is Jif.

Any of you who have been using a hard G are just wrong. SOOOOOOO wrong. My corner of the web was going nuts with the news for a couple of days. Which means I probably need to explore some new frontiers I guess.

But not before I use this as an excuse to share the work of Mr. Song-A-Day on the subject.

That was song number 1602, by the way.

Impressive.