How is the G in gif pronounced?
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Hard g (g as in "gift")
Soft g (g as in "huge")
Voiced postalveolar fricative (g as in "beige")
"Gee" (The whole acronym is just spelled out)
Voiceless velar fricative (the way the ch in "Bach" is pronounced in German)
Like the digraph ng
Like a k
Like a y
Like an h
Ny (like "gnocchi")
Other
The g is silent

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Other: it's the voiced palatal plosive [ɟ], a sound precisely midway between the Gs in "give" and "gist", guaranteed to annoy both sides.

One potential argument for soft g is that the name of the website Giphy makes more sense that way.

Like “jiff” the peanut butter.

@BTE That's soft g

@JosephNoonan That’s what the creator says. But I am not sure he gets to decide.

@BTE I'm not sure what you mean

@JosephNoonan I mean I saw the inventor of gifs say that he intended it to be pronounce like I said.

@BTE Oh, I see, I thought you were talking about me as the creator of the poll, so I was very confused.

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