How do you pronounce GIF?

GT is the only cocktail where the mixer tastes so bad it's necessary to add alcohol to it to make it drinkable. That was the only way they got Brits to take their malaria medicine in India.

The you in the second part of your comment is the general you, right? :)

Both instances of "you" in my response were general.

I don't think the creator gets the right to impose incorrect pronunciation. He/she may express his/her wishes, but we have the right to disagree. Otherwise, the world would be full of trolling names. Like if I called my creation "shittin" but insisted that it should be pronounced "shining". Or if someone took a word like "gift", removed the "t" and told everyone that it should now be pronounced with a "j" :)

It's an acronym, not a word, which is like essentially like a person's name, so it doesn't have to follow "rules." The creator get to decide how it's pronounced (like Jeff or Geoff).

Although you do make valid points, your analogy is faulty, and your logic therefore false.

Yes, we are talking about an acronym rather than a word, however, being an acronym does not essentially make it "like a person's name." And while there are no specific rules in the pronunciation of acronyms (as opposed to initialisms), there is nothing which says a particular person is able to dictate the pronunciation of any particular acronym. Moreover, introducing and popularizing the phrase (Graphics Interchange Format) along with its acronym (GIF) does not constitute "ownership" of it. Acronyms are not children who must necessarily be under the wing of a guardian, and even human children may change their name and/or its pronunciation upon reaching maturity.

What does all of that mean? Only that a "generally accepted" pronunciation does not yet exist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKxpwlKRQ2U

In reality, she's basically said some absurd things about the characters' attributes that don't align at all with the original books like Hermione could have been black in the books, despite descriptions pointing out her paleness. She's hinted at other retcons which you can probably find online.

Yeah, sorry. I just meant in general. She's constantly retconning on twitter and event pottermore, screwing up stuff she should well have left alone.

lol, you looked too far! It's in the first phrase of the intro ;)

Historical rules also apply. Otherwise, why not "Tchicago"? If the creator of the word says it's pronounced some way, it just has to count no matter how weird it is. People who disagree can just go create their own city or their own image compression algorithm, and name it however they please... until someone decides it should absolutely be butchered, because linguist

I actually hear Sequel for SQL a lot. I'd say it's actually close to 50/50 from my experience on whether someone pronounces it SQL or Sequel, and often people even alternate between the two - saying SQL at one point and Sequel at another.

These acronyms really weren't designed with much thought to how people would actually pronounce them. I've never heard anyone call JPEG anything other than JayPeg, but likewise I've never heard anyone call PNG anything other than P-N-G. Certainly not Ping.