Leonard Nimoy and his wife, Susan Bay, at the Dolby Theatre for the ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ LA premiere on May 14, 2013 in Hollywood, CA
Steve Wilhite, the father of Graphics Interchange Format (GIFs), has ended the heated debate on how to pronounce “GIF” at this year’s Webby Awards.Well then. We’re all fucked.
get fucked
funny how you have to spell it wrong to pronounce it right
Spell it wrong? How do you think the word Giraffe is spelt and pronounced?
I think the problem is that one of the next of kin, at least in the way of false friends, is the word ‘gift’. Add just one letter, can’t be much of a difference in pronunciation, right?
Of course that’s the opinion of a non-native speaker because everybody else knows that just because something is spelt the same in English doesn’t mean there’s not five different ways to pronounce it.