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Subject 3.14: How is "GIF" pronounced?

"GIF" is an acronymn for "Graphics Interchange Format." Despite the
hard "G" in "Graphics," GIF is pronounced "JIF." Although we don't
have a direct quote from the official CompuServe specification
released June 1987, here is a quote from related CompuServe documentation,
for CompuShow, a DOS-based image viewer used shortly thereafter:
"The GIF (Graphics Interchange Format), pronounced "JIF", was
designed by CompuServe ..."
We also have a report that the principal author of the GIF spec,
Bob Berry, pronounced it "JIF."