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Giraffe isn't an acronymJokerle wrote:How to you say giraffe?
Its also with a soft g that sounds like a j, isnt it?
TheYonderGod wrote:Giraffe isn't an acronymJokerle wrote:How to you say giraffe?
Its also with a soft g that sounds like a j, isnt it?
GIF stands for Graphics Interchange Format
How do you say Graphics? Jraphics? No.
This alternation has its origins in a historical palatalization of /ɡ/ which took place in Late Latin, and led to a change in the pronunciation of the sound [ɡ] before the front vowels [e] and .[1] Later, other languages not descended from Latin, such as English, inherited this feature as an orthographic convention.
Not quite. The soft G has been deemed the correct term by the creator who has said that hard G is WRONG. Just because a large amount of people say it a different way, it doesn't make them correct. It's like for "all intents and puproses." Anyone who says "For all intensive purposes"(Which is a substantial amount) when trying to use the former is wrong, despite the large volume of people who say it that way.Jokerle wrote:If both version soft and hard are used by people than both are correct.
Buy a new one?Gwynzer wrote: Is it a real word? It doesn't show up in my dictionary.
Damn right! This is the correct and only way to pronounce itTheYonderGod wrote: