[Coco] GIME

Mike Delyea mdelyea at gmail.com
Sat Sep 19 15:04:32 EDT 2020


Here's the video.  The part in question is around 1:50 into the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbL84lYfPUQ

On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 2:50 PM Lee <leep at tigerbase.com> wrote:

> No holy war, there's only one way that's correct.  It's "Gimme" and the G
> in GIF is soft like in Giraffe.  ;)  I partially jest.  This is truly what
> I believe, but I fully acknowledge that others pronounce GIF differently
> than the original creator of the name said it should be pronounced.  I'm
> perfectly ok with GIF being pronounced incorrectly by others as long as
> they don't try to make me pronounce it incorrectly. ;)  GIME on the other
> hand, I have to admit I've never heard it pronounced any way other than
> "gimme" before now.
> -----
> Lee
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 2:06 PM Fred Hicks <fred.hicks at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > This sounds like the holy war of how to properly pronounce GIF.
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 1:50 PM Mike Delyea <mdelyea at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I've been watching the many YouTubers doing the #septandy videos this
> > month
> > > and came across one that startled me.  In the video the person mentions
> > the
> > > GIME chip but pronounced it "jime", like dime with a j instead of a d.
> > > I've always pronounced it like "gimmee".  Have I been wrong all these
> > > years?
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