How do you pronounce .gif?

[kaput]

This isn't aimed at anyone here, but when I heard about this debate all I could think was:

[mkennedy]

Despite what gigabytes and gigahertz may have conditioned you to believe, "jigawatts" is a completely valid pronunciation.

So am I the only one who pronounces them jigabytes? (My thought is it's jiga like in gigantic)

But I pronounce the hard g in .GIF like in gremlin or groovy. And nobody mentioned the Jif peanut butter? (choosey moms choose Jif!)

[AGA]

It interesting that there are both AGA and AJA forum members around here.

Haha, true.  I pronounce both of those just by saying the letters 'ay-jee-ay' and 'ay-jay-ay'.  Does anyone actually say them as words?

Mittens people have often pronounced it aga like the oven.  I do not approve!  It's an initialism, damnit.

[selmiak]

I call it the 'Jee-eye-pee' thread.

I just imagined 2 drunk guys, one says, dude, you are loosing water there, and the other one answers, Gee, I pee

[Eric]

On the few occasions when I heard someone say the word 'segue' I would always imagine it to be written as 'segway'.

Following this line of thought, I always assume that British people are lining up in a que-way.

[Phemar]

Following this line of thought, I always assume that British people are lining up in a que-way.

Whaaaaaaaat!? Do brits really say "queue" as "cue-way"?

[AGA]

Yes, yes we do.

[Anian]

Following this line of thought, I always assume that British people are lining up in a que-way.

Difference being that "segue" actually is read same as "segway", while "queue" is basically read "q"

[Darth Mandarb]

Mittens people have often pronounced it aga like the oven.  I do not approve!  It's an initialism, damnit.

I thought an "intialism" was something that couldn't be said phonetically?  Like IBM or AGS.  An "acronym" is something that can be phonetically spoken like NATO or LOL.

Have I been living under a falsehood all these years?  Say it isn't so!!

English is a fickle little bitch [of a language].  With all the variations and exceptions to the rules I don't know why we even bother with rules (GASP!! No rules?!?! ).

I before E
Except when you fun a feisty heist on a weird beige foreign neighbor.

[AGA]

Mittens people have often pronounced it aga like the oven.  I do not approve!  It's an initialism, damnit.

I thought an "intialism" was something that couldn't be said phonetically?  Like IBM or AGS.  An "acronym" is something that can be phonetically spoken like NATO or LOL.

Have I been living under a falsehood all these years?  Say it isn't so!!

An initialism is pronounced letter by letter (FBI, CIA, AGA), while an acronym is pronounced as one word (NASA, NATO).  Which seems to be what you're saying?  Don't see how this goes against what I said before!

[Snarky]

I before E
Except when you fun a feisty heist on a weird beige foreign neighbor.

Isn't this rule supposed to be applied only in cases where it's pronounced as a "long E" (/iː/), which none of the words in your sentence are?

[Eric]

Difference being that "segue" actually is read same as "segway", while "queue" is basically read "q"

(I was kidding!)

[Darth Mandarb]

An initialism is pronounced letter by letter (FBI, CIA, AGA), while an acronym is pronounced as one word (NASA, NATO).  Which seems to be what you're saying?  Don't see how this goes against what I said before!

Well AGA can be spoken phonetically, like "ah-guh" where-as FBI cannot be spoken phonetically (well you could say "Fibby" I suppose but that's silly). 

So by what I think/thought the distinctions are; AGA would be an acronym.  Though I've always said it as an initialism, A-G-A rather than ah-guh.

Here is an article about the Difference Between Acronym and Initialism which seems to be what I was thinking, but if you look up Intialism on Dictionary.com the first definition seems to be the same as acronym.

I'm so confused.

[Stupot]

The way I understand it is that acronyms encompass initialisms among other types.
'Radar', which is made up of the first two letters of one word and then the first letter of all the other words, 'AAA', which is made up of three initials but is generally referred to as 'Triple-A', as well as true initialisms like BBC, all come under the umbrella of 'acronym' as far as I am concerned.

[Khris]

Heh, look what I found:

http://9gag.com/gag/aejXb65

[Ponch]

I say "jif" because that's how my old computer lab teacher, Mr. Highfil pronounced it. I also say "Gee You Eye" instead of "gooey" because of him. I blame him for lots of things, actually.

[Babar]

For making you a real man. You should be thankful to him!

[Ponch]

For making you a real man. You should be thankful to him!

I am! Thanks, Mr. Highfil! I wouldn't be the dancing cow I am today without you! "Jif" forever!!

[Tabata]

Now I asked google translate to pronounce it for me
... and he called it gif and not jif

[dactylopus]

I've always said gif with a soft g myself.  Also ping, jaypeg, and gee-you-eye.

And for a long time I pronounced Nike to rhyme with Mike.