Jenerally speaking, jiraffes are too jiagantic to perform jymnastics. They also do not possess the enerjy, intellijence, or a larje attention span. Do you jentlemen think that will chanje in the future? Does what I said leave you feeling confused or fill you with raje? No rude jestures, please. I'm going to go back to perusing JEE-OH-JEE, now.

[ɣɔx] of course :p

I recently watched Noclip's documentary series on CD Projekt, including GOG, and all of them said it as "G-O-G". I pronounce it as "GOG" as in, "Gog and Magog" in the Bible. I guess G-O-G is probably more proper and well, at a personal level, that'd have less of a negative connotation (not that my pronunciation of it constantly makes me think of Gog and Magog or anything). However, it'd be a lot harder for me to break the habit of just pronouncing it that way.

"GOG" ^_^

Clearly it's GOGG

How do you pronounce the seventh letter of the English alphabet?

How about you answer my question first? We all know G can produce a soft or a hard sound, but which one do you use in the word graphics?

To answer your question, I pronounce it /ˈdʒiː/, so if I was naming the letters I would say djee-aye-eff. When pronouncing it I obviously use the same sounds that are used for the words the letters represent.

The creator of the graphics interchange format says it's pronounced as "jif". What either of us thinks about it doesn't matter. If the masses want to pronounce it incorrectly then they're welcome to do so. It wouldn't be the first time the majority has been wrong about something and it won't be the last.

The same applies to "GOG" and its creator(s). The difference is that I don't know if "GOG" or "gee-oh-gee" is correct.

Sorry to break it to you, but by your standard none of us speak English remotely correctly. I think you might have to accept that the originator of a word doesn't dictate its pronunciation for the rest of time. What is "correct" changes over time and people have quite sensibly decided to pronounce it using the same sounds as the phrase it stands for and this occurred much faster than a lot of other changes in language. Do you say jiggabyte too? Because that's "correct".
Maybe he says jraphics, but for those of us who use a hard G for that word, Gif is the only sensible pronunciation.

You still haven't answered my question by the way, even though I answered the question you asked instead of answering my question.

If society decides what is "correct" even when it's incorrect then things are going to continue to get worse. :)

Look at other acronyms and how they're spelled compared to how they're pronounced. Are you aybsent without leave when you go AWOL? Does the ehNASDAQ have stock information?

Not sure if capitayn catte and DoomSouth are bantering for fun. But if not, then this is one of the most pointless arguments I've ever seen on these forums.

In 2015, a University of Montreal linguistics professor found 105 *gi* words where 68 (65%) of them were soft g pronunciations, but hard g pronunciations were used 2.5x more than soft g counterparts. When corrected for both existence and frequency, they have nearly the exact same results. More info about this debate's timeline can be found on Time here on Archive.org. So both ways are correct and one is not more correct than the other since you both are sons or daughters of two different countries with their own set of regional dialects.

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As for language semantics:

1. Language itself is dynamic and changes based on origin, rate of spread, geographical regions, culture, the frequency or exposure of certain syllables, and the physical strength of the speaker's mouth muscles, throat and mouth passages, and vocal cords.

2. For any native English speaker, shortening what we say to convey the same meaning is most often preferred route in business and everyday English. Imagine if we were still speaking the old, correct form of English where we still pronounced like these examples here. I'd probably give up English for its tediousness and learn French in addition to my condensed mother tongue instead.

3. As long as both parties know what each other is talking about, then it doesn't which method is the more correct way of saying things unless you're trying to learn a specific English dialect. I subscribe to the philosophy that communication is just a means to an end of understanding one another. Sure, there is beauty in the technical use of language, but that stuff is better appreciated by artists, their audiences, and academics in a different setting.

I was having trouble with Hulu login a few times lately and called their support to discuss the reCaptcha issue.

I'd eventually end up telling them during the conversation that I had no problem with other sites. Take Gee-Oh-Gee dot com for example, they got rid of their reCaptcha system on their redeem page when it started having problems. Why can't you guys get rid of this junk?

So now I use Gee-Oh-Gee dot come as an example during many of my tech support calls lol. I usually elaborate a bit with them, saying: They used to be called Good Old Games and they sell digital games, you know like Steam dot com, only without the Dee-R-M.

Sometimes I get lucky and they are pc gamers and know exactly what I mean.

[Note: Some people say the reCaptcha is still active for them on the redeem page. This has not been my experience for the past 2 weeks. Oh, and I had to make a dig at Hulu for all the recent headaches and this topic just reminded me of them lol]
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I don't know about DoomSouth, but I was having fun. Mostly I was just shooting down their argument that "it should be pronounced jif because the creator says it that way". I don't personally care how anyone chooses to pronounce it, but it's fun to dismantle bad arguments. ;)

These were points I was making as well, although you've made them much more eloquently.
u wot?

The N in NASDAQ and National use the same sound. This is not an example that supports your point.

Eye juecc Eye wheel leaf yout ooh iht, eef ewe Juan two bee ink oh rekt. Keep noobnouncing it how you like. Let us know if you ever invent anything so we can tell you that the spelling or name is wrong. :)