The PB is Jiff, Same pronunciation, but with an additional F
Gee, really? 
You can answer some thread or other any time you like. 
To me, it’s a cleaning agent.
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The PB is Jiff, Same pronunciation, but with an additional F
[/quote]What?! You pronounce it “jif-if” or something?
I stand corrected, it is indeed JIF
I just said both versions so many times I can’t remember which one I normally say. Honestly, I probably say both depending on my mood. Sometimes it’s a gif day, sometimes it’s a jiff day.
Do they correspond with having a good day and a bad day respectively?
It depends whether or not your gf finds out what you’ve been up to.
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Haha probably. I just haven’t figured out which one’s which yet. I’m sure my co-workers know.
It comes in a variety of flavours - here’s one of them
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I’m thinking of pronouncing it Gif from now on.
That’s exactly why. The creators of the filetype had the commercial in mind:
Choosy moms choose Jif.
[quote=article]The Gif Pronunciation Page has long catalogued evidence that Gif sounds like Jif.
The site suggests the reason for this was to make it sound like a popular brand of American peanut butter - “one of the principal three programmer foods (the other two being Pepsi and nacho cheese Doritos)”.
That reference would be lost on UK users, who are more likely to associate Jif with lemon juice or an abandoned brand of sink cleaner.[/quote]
That said, while I’ve always said gif correctly, I seem to be the only one who says “pee en gee” instead of, apparently, “ping”. I can’t say ping, that’s what you do to servers!
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There’s a cleaning product over here called Vim : )
Offtopic funny story about AJAX:
A friend of mine, a developer, and some other devs were sitting in a bar in Rotterdam. Rotterdam’s main football team is Feyenoord. Feyenoord’s arch-enemy in football is the main team from Amsterdam: Ajax.
My friend and his buddies were discussing asynchronous Javascript techniques, but eventually they noticed the air around them turn ominous and they eventually felt they had to leave the bar.
Haha.
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I thought it had 2 f’s as well, so I went and looked at the jar before hitting send.
I bet making a sandwich with my Jif tastes better than using yours 
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In my 20+ years dealing with graphic formats, I have never, EVER heard the JPEG format being called JIF for short - it was JPEG
Personally, I don’t worry about how it’s pronounced - I avoid that format like the plague. The only thing it’s good for nowadays is for animated images, and I think I’d rather beat myself over the head with a hammer
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Agree, I’ve never heard it used either - or can’t even recall seeing jif or jiff other than in doco
Hehe, you have a point!
Of course not - it would be extremely confusing if both the gif and jpeg names were both pronounced jif.
So the jif file type should always be pronounced jpeg.
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Hey Stephen, what’s confusing about
For photographic quality images use jif files. But for simpler graphics use jif files
Well its obvious that both jif references are referring to the same file type but it isn’t quite so obvious to those who mispronounce gif which file type is actually being referred to.
The animated gifs are back in vogue, and tbh, I quite like them. They are very handy for simple animations that would suck a lot more bandwidth as a video.
Anyway, I gotta go … my train’s leaving!
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I would advise against attempting to board a moving train. That one might be leaving but it is way too late to get on.