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Steve Wilhite's slide at the 2013 Webby Awards. The pronunciation of GIF, an acronym for the Graphics Interchange Format, has been disputed since the 1990s.Popularly rendered in English as a one-syllable word, the acronym is most commonly pronounced / ɡ ɪ f / ⓘ (with a hard g as in gig) or / dʒ ɪ f / ⓘ (with a soft g as in gin), differing in the phoneme represented by the letter G.
The hard g is [ɡ] in almost all those languages (with the exception of Galician, which may instead be a voiceless pharyngeal fricative), though the soft g pronunciation, which occurs before i e y , differs amongst them as follows: [dʒ] in Italian [3] and Romanian [4] [5] [ʒ] in French and Portuguese [6] [(d)ʒ] in Catalan [7]
The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF; / ɡ ɪ f / GHIF or / dʒ ɪ f / JIF, see § Pronunciation) is a bitmap image format that was developed by a team at the online services provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite and released on June 15, 1987.
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This may also be related to the Afrikaans word for poison: gif. Coastal pot-smokers used the term to refer to Durban Poison: "Gifs" [locally-grown marijuana]. The word evolved into kiff, an adjective or exclamation meaning "cool", among English-speaking people on the east coast. kie-kie/kiekie/kiek-kie – pronounced "key-ki"; refers to a ...
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In 1998, Anka and Dion recorded "It's Hard to Say Goodbye" as a duet in English. This version was produced by Foster and Gatica, and included on Anka's A Body of Work album, issued on September 22, 1998. "It's Hard to Say Goodbye" was released as a promotional single for US adult contemporary radio stations in January 1999. [2]