• Dark Arc
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    32 years ago

    English is not consistent, accept that. You can say gif but I’ll continue to call it gif.

    That doesn’t mean we have an ehxcuse to haje jt worse

    • trashcan
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      2 years ago

      I’ve been saying gif with a soft g for over twenty years. Telling me not to is what makes English worse. As far I’m concerned both pronunciations are valid.

      • Doug [he/him]
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        32 years ago

        Telling me not to is what makes English worse.

        In your opinion. “Jiggawatt” is not a common English pronunciation outside of back to the future references at this point. People mostly settled on one over the other because it makes sense to pronounce a word a similar way to be more easily understood. It’s not always the case, sure, but I think you’ll find multiple pronunciations are the exception, not the rule. That’s why you can come up with a good handful of such words, but you’ll be using words with single pronunciations to talk about them.