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Right? What's the closest English word to gif? Gift. Gifts, gifting. No other words beginning gif. And even words like girl aren't jirl just because giraffe is. Giraffe came from Arabic through Italian.

Inventers don't get to change the language just because they invent something.

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Exactly why JPEG should be pronounced Juh-Pheg. Joint Photographic Experts Group.

If you insist on pronouncing gif like graphics, you'd better be saying Juh-Pheg too.

Gif like “gift”, and jay-peg. Yes, I’m sorry it’s not consistent. And it doesn’t have to be. It is simply correct :)

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