[Coco] . Gif

[gene heskett]

On Thursday, 24 March 2022 06:29:47 EDT rietveld rietveld wrote:
> I saw this in the morning news
> 
> "Good morning. Stephen Wilhite, the creator of the GIF, has died at 74,
> The Verge reported. The GIF, or Graphics Interchange Format, dates
> back to the 1980s, when Wilhite was looking for a way to send
> high-quality graphics in color during the early stages of the
> internet.
 
> If you’re wondering how to pronounce Wilhite’s magnum opus, he settled
> the debate in a 2013 interview with the NYT. “The Oxford English
> Dictionary accepts both pronunciations. They are wrong. It is a soft
> ‘G,’ pronounced ‘jif.’ End of story.” "
 
But for some reason carved deeply into our dna by now, it will be 
pronounced with a hard G.  Forever.

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Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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