[Coco] Coco3 GIF viewer demonstrated

Wayne Campbell asa.rand at gmail.com
Mon Mar 5 15:49:53 EST 2018


I don't think it matters *how* you pronounce it, since everyone knows what
you mean anyway (unless they are not computer literate).

Will check discord this evening.

On Mon, Mar 5, 2018, 6:24 AM L. Curtis Boyle <curtisboyle at sasktel.net>
wrote:

> On Mar 5, 2018, at 8:19 AM, Wayne Campbell <asa.rand at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I know that there are two ways to pronounce it. There is a peanut butter
> > that is named JIF. Obviously, it is pronounced with the J or soft G
> sound.
> > Therefore, it seems reasonable to assume that GIF would be pronounced
> with
> > the hard G sound. That said, there will always be those that insist it
> > should be pronounced with a soft G.
> Including the original author at Compuserve, who created the spec (he said
> it was a soft ā€˜Jā€™ sound). However, most people I know use the hard ā€˜Gā€™
>
> P.S. - some info for you about BASIC09/RUNB in Discord that you may want
> to check.
>
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