"giff" is "correct" so I voted for it but in practice "jiff" is usually funnier to say.
― www.toilet-guru.com (silby), Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
zheef
― Old Lunch, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
Jeri Gewell
http://thedroidyourelookingfor.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/jewell_factsoflife.jpg
― Tom Hardy & the Batbreakers (Phil D.), Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
lool
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
back in the late nineties i said "jiff," then switched to "giff" when a friend convinced me it was right, and then the same friend found out how the creators pronounced it and we BOTH switched to "jiff." that's enough word-based peer pressure for one lifetime.
― i've hidden a white teen on Crimedoer Mountain (reddening), Thursday, 11 October 2012 22:36 (eleven years ago) link
The 'g' and the 'f' are silent. It's pronounced 'EEEEEEEEEEE'.
― Old Lunch, Thursday, 11 October 2012 22:38 (eleven years ago) link
the g stands for graphical, get a brain compuserve
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Thursday, 11 October 2012 22:59 (eleven years ago) link
do you pronounce ASAP as "ah-sap" or "ay-sap"?
― borscht and bikinis (how's life), Thursday, 11 October 2012 23:02 (eleven years ago) link
LOL as "lol" or "lowl"?
― borscht and bikinis (how's life), Thursday, 11 October 2012 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
the lowls of ja rule obvs
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Thursday, 11 October 2012 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
omg = "ohmjuh"
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 11 October 2012 23:05 (eleven years ago) link
ohtim
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Thursday, 11 October 2012 23:06 (eleven years ago) link
or fall as u guys call it
― zvookster, Thursday, 11 October 2012 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
'dot gif'
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Sunday, 14 October 2012 03:44 (eleven years ago) link
I had no idea anyone used a hard "g"! Is there any English word where "g" is pronounced with a hard "g" sound when it precedes "i"??
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 14 October 2012 04:14 (eleven years ago) link
gift
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Sunday, 14 October 2012 04:15 (eleven years ago) link
girl
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Sunday, 14 October 2012 04:16 (eleven years ago) link
gimp
gif
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Sunday, 14 October 2012 04:17 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, "gift", nm.
4xpost ha
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 14 October 2012 04:17 (eleven years ago) link
OK, a bunch are listed on the page ZS linked. I clearly should not post about anything requiring moderate alertness at this time of night.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 14 October 2012 04:19 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
Wait, who pronounces it "jif"? My dad doesn't even do that.
― where is el airoporto? (dog latin), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 09:31 (eleven years ago) link
don't forget the pancakes on lemon.gif day
― nashwan, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 09:37 (eleven years ago) link
dad avoids embarrassing gif gaff, pronouncing it jiff is strictly for riff-raff
― jiff boycott (NickB), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 09:40 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
in your face, daaaaaaad
― down w/ obana...he is the reson were in dept (Z S), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 00:05 (eleven years ago) link
wooooooooo
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 01:51 (eleven years ago) link
94 ilxors can be wrong
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 02:14 (eleven years ago) link
everyone’s right because in my head i’m pronouncing “giff” with a soft g
― 1staethyr, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 05:52 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF_k6mIw9w0
"my little jhetto blaster"
which immediately made me think "gheri curls".
― sorcery is in the gutter (how's life), Thursday, 18 October 2012 11:48 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01455/White-afro_1455424i.jpg
― Burgled Hams (Old Lunch), Thursday, 18 October 2012 12:05 (eleven years ago) link
that hair
omg
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 18 October 2012 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
"Man on the street" in Times Square interviewed on ABC and asked how he thought social media affected the election said "jiff".
― xanthanguar (cwkiii), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 04:30 (eleven years ago) link
http://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdfvn1qoux1qz6f9yo1_r1_500.jpg
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 02:21 (eleven years ago) link
that's funny they chose to verb, not the noun
― Z S, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 02:26 (eleven years ago) link
THE verb
Gif It & Loop It, Jhøsh
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 02:27 (eleven years ago) link
well yeah, i mean i know it can be a verb, but it just seems like the noun is the more basic version of it. oh well!
WORD OF THE YEAR 2012
― Z S, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 02:28 (eleven years ago) link
jif it & loop it, ghosh
― bill paxman (darraghmac), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 02:28 (eleven years ago) link
also, i'm no dictionary pro, but i thought you couldn't use the same word in its definition
*poops on parade from the clouds*
― Z S, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 02:29 (eleven years ago) link
Anesthesia, noun
when you use Anesthesia
― Z S, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 02:30 (eleven years ago) link
1. it's the word of the year because it's a new word they observed this year; GIF (n) was extant; gif (v) is a neologism2. no reason you can't use a different sense of a word in a definition so long as it isn't circular
― does smooshing cloacae together actually count as sodomy??? (silby), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 02:34 (eleven years ago) link
It's not a crossword puzzle clue.
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 02:56 (eleven years ago) link
Re-giffing has turned gif-giving into a cynical affair, indeed.
― Come Into My Layer (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 02:56 (eleven years ago) link
see, this is why i can't get my dictionary pro license
― Z S, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 03:09 (eleven years ago) link
qif
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 03:19 (eleven years ago) link
that is how the word queef will be spelled in 2013 (word of the year 2013)
qif it and loop it
― Z S, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 03:20 (eleven years ago) link
― Z S, Tuesday, November 13, 2012 8:29 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
You should totally geef that!
I would, but I'm really on good at jaipegging.
― pplains, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 03:23 (eleven years ago) link