@[email protected] to [email protected] • 1 year agoWhen you hear someone pronounce GIF as 'JIFi.imgur.comimagemessage-square199fedilinkarrow-up11.13Karrow-down1124
arrow-up11.01Karrow-down1imageWhen you hear someone pronounce GIF as 'JIFi.imgur.com@[email protected] to [email protected] • 1 year agomessage-square199fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink-2•1 year agoGraphics Interchange Format. Graphics. Not Jraphics.
minus-squareren (a they/them)link10•1 year agoThat’s not how acronyms as words works. AIDS isn’t pronounced “Uh-ids” like the A in acquired.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•edit-21 year agoLetters are pronounced differently in acronyms than in the original words all the time. Take POTUS, for example; the O and U are not the sounds in “of” or “United”.
minus-square@Lizardking27link2•edit-21 year agoYou mean you guys haven’t been saying “puh-thyoos” all this time?
Graphics Interchange Format. Graphics. Not Jraphics.
That’s not how acronyms as words works. AIDS isn’t pronounced “Uh-ids” like the A in acquired.
Letters are pronounced differently in acronyms than in the original words all the time. Take POTUS, for example; the O and U are not the sounds in “of” or “United”.
You mean you guys haven’t been saying “puh-thyoos” all this time?