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Long time no see, you old spacecat. I'll refer you to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface

>The visible graphical interface features of an application are sometimes referred to as chrome or GUI (pronounced gooey).[11][12]

It is also Gif not Jif or Gee I eff. :-p

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In the video the narration spells out "GIF", which offends my space alien cat sensibilities tremendously. However I forgive him this, the analysis is sound and informative.

Erm, GUI, not GIF, obv.

The founder of GIF said JIF, who are you to debate him?

It's Graphics Interchange Format not "Jaffics" Interchange Format.

[you're probably joking, but in case you're not...]

people also pronounce "GAN" (Generative Adversarial Network) with a hard G even though Generative is a soft G (J).

and how do you pronounce "MUA" (Mail User Agent)? I'd go with moo-ah, even though it's not a Mail Oozer Ahgent :)

Maybe he shouldn’t have spelled it Gif then?

(Just kidding. But I’ll say it with a hard G until the day I die. Because...G)

G like Giraffe or G like Gorilla. It's not worth time arguing about it.

Giraffe, is a borrowed word from French/Italian, we're better off calling it a camelopard anyway. /s

> Giraffe, is a borrowed word from French

So is at least one third of the English language…

Hence /s

G like Graphics. Simple as that. Same reason we say "GUI" and not "JUI".

I mean just because I invented the television it wouldn't mean it would be my right to claim that the correct pronunciation of TV was actually TP. But let's not get bogged down with who's right and wrong on the internet and focus on the important stuff.

Chill out Geoffrey, it's not that big a deal.

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