November 2012: GIF is selected as the Oxford Dictionaries USA Word of the Year 2012. The dictionary wrote that “GIF may be pronounced with either a soft g (as in giant) or a hard g (as in graphic).

Sticking to its effort to set the GIF-JIF record straight, and, um, spread the news, from their revisionist point of view, Jif, the peanut butter brand that is part of the J.M. Smucker Co. product ...

They are wrong. It is a soft 'G,' pronounced 'jif." But seven years later, the debate is still ongoing. To keep it all lighthearted, GIPHY has created a suite of jif vs. gif memes at www.giphy.com ...

Sure, the creator of the gif, Steve Wilhite, prefers a soft g, and sure, gif originated as an acronym for graphics interchange format, but inventors aren't always good at naming ...

If you go with soft G, congratulations, you can say it like the peanut butter with the snooty confidence of someone who’s 100% right. If you go with hard G, congratulations, you’re the future.

“The Oxford English Dictionary accepts both pronunciations. They are wrong. It is a soft ‘G,’ pronounced ‘jif.’ End of story.” — Steve Wilhite, the creator of GIF, in an email to the ...

According to Trebek, GIF, an acronym for a popular image format (some examples even feature Trebek), is pronounced with a soft G. GIF crept its way into Tuesday night’s “Final Jeopardy ...

Hard 'G' Or Soft, The GIF Takes Its Place As A Modern Art Form A new exhibit at the Museum of the Moving Image is showcasing reaction GIFs, those little animated images people employ online when ...

They dubbed it the GIF, pronounced with a soft-g, like Jif, the peanut butter. Since then, as the animated GIF has become a mainstay of Internet culture, GIF creators and watchers alike have ...

We pronounce G’s as the soft-G when i, e, or y follow it (think giraffe, German, or analogy). There are exceptions of course, but in general practice, Wilhite has his point. GIF is followed by an I.