The Pronunciation Thread

I think i know it's wave, but the pronunciation of a schoolmate from 20 odd years ago (southwest UK) has left me unable to move forward. I don't think this is like gif/jif where there was debate - and settlement? it's gif, right? - but curious if this is regional or just me and that one dude

i've never heard anything other than a "wave" file. gif vs jif is a fight where if you care you lose

Didn't the inventor of the GIF format publicly announce it's jif?

jif is the correct pronunciation of GIF, which is the acronym for Giraffe Information File.

Giraffe Interchange Format, surely.

Who interchanges giraffes?!

Didn't the inventor of the GIF format publicly announce it's jif?

yes. then many years passed, and a lot of people who were born after the format were invented pronounced it in a different way. at this point, many people began losing by fighting about which way was best

I would say 'wav', fwiw.

i always used to say wav. I think I knew it was probably "wave" but I read things phonetically

Waveform Audio File Format (WAVE, or WAV due to its filename extension; pronounced "wave"[8])

waff, or gtfo

like "suave"? Have never heard anyone ever say that.

i say it, but only as i use their products every morning.

*looks in peepcam*

"suave"

In the UK at least, Wav, like suave, never heard it called a 'Wave' file by anyone that has to actually deal with them in almost 30 years in audio.

What is it called? A wavv? New to me but seems good

Yeah, like 'have' with a w

my problem is i'm thinking of sin waves and triangle and square waves

just basic building block components of sound. i know that's different than the filetype and all of that. i just associate them that way, may be alone in that