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Graphics Interchange Format. Hard G.
I use a hard G but this is a bad argument. I'll just link to this great list of counterexamples:
https://lemmy.world/comment/2216080
How do you pronounce JPEG?
Jay-peg
JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group. So by the other user's logic, you shouldn't be using the hard /p/ sound.
Ah, Jafeg, like Jafar's less charismatic cousin.
Do you pronounce origin like the state?
Do you you also say "nay-say" when reading NASA, lol, that logic is flawed.
I'd like to remind everyone that the rules for words amd pronunciation were documented AFTER most words, which is why it's so inconsistent and arbitrary
The acronym for NASA uses the same sounds as the words that make the acronym. Same as GIF so I'm not sure what your point is. Mine is that GIF stands for graphics interchange format and graphics starts with a hard g therefore GIF should start with a hard g.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/aeronautics
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/agency
Then
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/nasa
They are phonetically different sounds altogether, so your argument is flawed.
Edit: Im fucking dumb, it's administration, not agency. Even so, my point still stands, NASA is phonetically different than the sound in aeronautics.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/administration?q=administration
It's the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Oof, I fucked that one up
Well Aeronautics is a hard A, so you got that going for you least :)
Should be naysah.
SCUBA, unless you pronounce underwater as oonderwater.
Also JIF is a separate file format, so GIF should not be pronounced the same.