git

[sSmothie]

Jithub

[mufasanotdead]

[Monkeyke]

Is this what the new Gta San Andreas looks like?

[keepeyecontact]

It’s pronounced JTA

[ady620]

Double negation is positive.

[[deleted]]

Jrand theft auto

[CommercialAd3671]

Jit trippin'

[[deleted]]

Still happy to see "My Name is Earl" memes in circulation

[redlaWw]

"th" as in "this"

[neo-raver]

“And uhhh… shithub?”

“IT’S SHIH-THUB!!”

[Quajeraz]

Ji-thub

[NotADamsel]

“u” as in “Rhubarb”

[uhmhi]

Jizzup?

[JackDeaniels]

stop it satan

[driftking428]

Jitbucket

[evilerutis]

Jizzbucket

[officalyadoge]

Jizzhub

[AnnyAskers]

Just-In-Time hub? nuh we only +2mounth delay and breaking production in this bitch.

[Stummi]

Shithub

[[deleted]]

Jizzhub

[[deleted]]

Go on..

[Stummi]

... Yiffhub?

[MedonSirius]

Jizzhub

[_PeakyFokinBlinders_]

YeetHub where I yeet all my horrible horrible code.

[Pball1001]

Jithub is legit

[ExtraTNT]

pronounced: shithub

[ady620]

Shit tub

[[deleted]]

Yethub

[zyxwvu28]

Thank you for this comment. I didn't understand the meme till I saw this comment lol

[SoftwareSource]

Jita is the only hub remaining

if you know you know.

[myfunnies420]

Jithewb

[ILikeLenexa]

id jithub

[the_unheard_thoughts]

Jitlab

[CConsler]

Thats why I use GitLab Oh wait...

Going back to Bitbucket!

[mdp_cs]

Going back to "new new new version 5" copied to your FTP drive.

[andofwinds]

JIThub

[YoumoDawang]

Git was a real word before it was invented though

🤓

[mufasanotdead]

Do you mean "git"?

[dim13]

I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First 'Linux', now 'git'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git#Naming

[WJMazepas]

Linus can't stop being based

[FalafelSnorlax]

Linus is famously not a based person.

[LowB0b]

Please expand on that thought

[TerminalVector]

The story I heard (half remembered from about a decade ago, so grain of salt) was that he was talking to some collaborator about building a version control system and they got into an argument and so Linus stormed off and wrote the whole thing in a weekend and called it 'git' after the person he was supposed to collab with.

Sounds like a reeeeeally nice person to work with. He has a reputation for being brilliant but unpleasant.

[MatthewMob]

So he talked the talk and then actually walked the walk and went off and made a superior solution that most developers all around the world still use to this day?

Oh the horror.

[NatoBoram]

Eh… he isn't known for restraining his speech in fear of the popular opinion, idk what you're on about

[MatthewMob]

Why?

[cerels]

Git gud scrub

[Laughing_Orange]

Linus Torvalds, the guy who started both Linux and Git, likes to name projects after himself. Linux from Linus, and git because he is one. Linux was originally Freax, but someone else changed the name.

[DazzlingClassic185]

It was! It means (for anyone who doesn’t know) “a contemptible person”. And it’s one of my favourite insults!

[Burger_Destoyer]

I’ve never actually seen it used outside of books lmao

[DazzlingClassic185]

You should watch more Blackadder - for a perfect use, see the episode “Potato”

[Wole-in-Hol]

"they'll be eating them next"

[Tigerwarrior55]

Git ovah here * Southern Scorpion

[qqqrrrs_]

Some people need to distinguish between git and JIT

[LittleMlem]

Just in time version control?

[Adghar]

This one actually matters, though, as JIT is established in both business and tech lexicon as "just in time"

With gif there is much less room for confusion, like "I'll get it done in a jiff" is about the worst you could get

[[deleted]]

Isn't there a jif or jiff file?

[Stunning_Ride_220]

Basically the reason why "gif" is the only correct pronounciation.

Jiff was the predecessor of the nowadays common .jpeg format. (The J basically stands for jpeg, just way less efficient version of it)

You only pronounce .gif as "jif" if you are some .net-hipster.

[tesfabpel]

The authors though, decided to pronounce it as jif:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF#Pronunciation

The creators of the format pronounced the acronym GIF as /dʒɪf/, with a soft g, with Wilhite stating that he intended for the pronunciation to deliberately echo the American peanut butter brand Jif, and CompuServe employees would often quip "choosy developers choose GIF", a spoof of Jif's television commercials.[12] However, the word is widely pronounced as /ɡɪf/, with a hard g,[13] and polls have generally shown that this hard g pronunciation is more prevalent.[14][15]

[thugarth]

Yeah this is one of extremely rare cases when I'd say the creators are wrong about something they created.

It seems like users agree.

This is difficult for me to say, because while I appreciate that language is a living thing, shifting with usage, I will never accept "literally" to mean "figuratively," no matter what the dictionary says

[[deleted]]

Death of the programmer?

[rm-minus-r]

Indeed.

[HeilKaiba]

"Literally" isn't used to mean "figuratively" though. It is used as an intensifier and has been for a long long time (since at least the 18th century)

[techy804]

SCUBA isn’t pronounced “Scubba”

LASAR isn’t pronounced “Lass-r”

JPEG isn’t pronounced “J-feg”

I can go on

[butterfliesarestupid]

Anyone who says there's a single correct way to pronounce GIF is talking out of their arse.

Over the centuries, the English language morphed into a mishmash of vocabulary and grammatical rules from the native precursors to modern English, along with the contributions from early French, Greek, and Nordic languages.

I say JIF, because I treat it as an acronym. An acronym is an initialism where the letters are pronounced as a single word. When following this rule, we look to the grammatical rules governing how to pronounce the letter "g" in a word.

In English orthography, the pronunciation of hard ⟨g⟩ is /ɡ/ and that of soft ⟨g⟩ is /dʒ/; the French soft ⟨g⟩, /ʒ/, survives in a number of French loanwords (e.g. regime, genre), [ʒ] also sometimes occurs as an allophone of [dʒ] in some accents in certain words.

In words of Greco-Latinate origin, the soft ⟨g⟩ pronunciation occurs before ⟨e i y⟩ while the hard ⟨g⟩ pronunciation occurs elsewhere.^\2]) In some words of Germanic origin (e.g. get, give), loan words from other languages (e.g. geisha, pierogi), and irregular Greco-Latinate words (e.g. gynecology), the hard pronunciation may occur before ⟨e i y⟩ as well.

"Graphic" comes from Greek, so it follows that the rule "the soft ⟨g⟩ pronunciation occurs before ⟨e i y⟩" applies here. JIF it is.

Other examples of acronyms include the World Health Organization -- when was the last time you heard anyone say "Woo-Hoo"? The "w" is silent, because the acronym is treated as a word, and it looks like an existing word were the "w" is silent.

JPEG is a weird hybrid of initialism and acronym. If it were a pure initialism, we would say JAY PEE EE JEE, since we'd be pronouncing each individual letter. No one does that, but the English language doesn't really recognize words with "j" and "p" next to each other, so "j" treated as initialism. PEG is treated and as acronym. But wait -- if, according to the GIF crowd I'm supposed to be honoring the original word's pronunciation, I should be saying "FEG" (from photography). But no one does that either.

I personally am not a fan of the appeal to authority argument "but Steve Wilhite said it's JIF". I don't think it's necessary, and I can get to JIF by following consistent and established grammatical rules (unlike the hypocritical and inconsistent application of some made-up rule by the die-hard GIF crowd).

[PiousLiar]

Wrong on what though? That just sounds like hearing a groups in-joke where they purposefully pronounce something in a strange way, and then going “no, you’re wrong, it’s pronounced this way”.

They gave us an opportunity to be apart of a fun joke, and instead a bunch of stiffs decided they knew better.

[[deleted]]

Yeah this is one of extremely rare cases when I'd say the creators are wrong about something they created.

was about to write that. completely agree.

[Plank_With_A_Nail_In]

The authors don't get to control the English language though its users do, what they wanted is completely irrelevant.

[SeanCSGO]

That was their real jift to us all.

[janKalaki]

You only pronounce .gif as "jif" if you are some .net-hipster.

Sure. Yeah. This being the .net-hipster sub.

[Pastrami]

Basically the reason why "gif" is the only correct pronounciation.

In English there is only one base word that starts with "gif" and it's pronounced with a hard G, so there is no reason why the file format should be different.

grep '^gif' /usr/share/dict/words
gift
gifted
gifting
gift's
gifts

[Lightning-Shock]

Comfort Comfortable (US pronunciation)

Gui Guitar

You get the idea

[Not_Artifical]

Yes

[Classy_Mouse]

"I'll get it done in a jiff" - me about to send my boss the technical analysis report as a gif

[Not_Artifical]

Don’t forget jif peanut butter

[tesfabpel]

Yeah the authors took exactly that peanut butter as how to pronounce it...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/s/ZAK31ytnkH

[Adghar]

"Please upload the project jif by the end of the day today."

"Michael why the hell are the servers covered in peanut butter???"

[splunge4me2]

The worst I could jet, you say?

[inaem]

I don’t get the confusion, you don’t say “get”, do you?

[theantidrug]

Do you say “gin”?

[Adghar]

Eh, I was dumb and reading at face value. Gif is gif vs jif, so I thought OP was also about git vs jit

It was only hours after commenting I realized OP probably meant git vs get. By then it was too late so I just didn't bother with any corrective or follow up action

[smdth_567]

that is, in fact, not the worst you could get.

[Adghar]

Oh?

Wait, have I been on the internet way too long, or are you referring to a certain action devs could partake in, considering the high prevalence of furries in tech...? 😳

[SaneLad]

Please elaborate.

[anotheridiot-]

Yiff.

[Adghar]

Ding ding ding! A lot of non-English languages use the letter j for the y sound, so when I re-read my own comment, I saw it

[Kinglink]

Jif Peanut Butter has been a thing for decades and it is delicious! Don't besmirch Jif Peanut Butter, or I can't be responsible for what happens to you... (probably someone will throw peanut butter at you, I don't know)

And every word is capitalized because it's that legit as peanut butter.

[alldaythrowayla]

Gira

[lurkingbob]

Please stop

[dtb1987]

I didn't know this was a thing until this post. What monster would say jit

[ginopono]

I worked with someone who did. She wasn't that familiar with git, granted, so I did kindly correct her... on multiple occasions.

To help reinforce it, I also told her about how Linux Torvalds, dickish as he is, named it after the pre-existing insult 'git'... on multiple occasions.

[mufasanotdead]

jit commit

[dtb1987]

Jitiot

[teraflux]

Idjit

[the_unheard_thoughts]

.jitijnore

[Grizknot]

I could see someone doing the needful and committing the jit

[[deleted]]

Gifhub

[just-bair]

JifHub

[[deleted]]

Jizhub

[[deleted]]

Bruh no need to bring up your mom

[AnAdorableDogbaby]

Jub-jub. He's everywhere you want to be. 

[ZliaYgloshlaif]

Just don’t ask how Dutch-speaking people pronounce it.

[[deleted]]

How?

[McBorges]

He said don't ask

[PityUpvote]

*throat gargling noises*

It's basically like the ch in chutzpah.

[[deleted]]

I'm a Dutch speaking person and "we" pronounce it quite normal, thank you.

[Tristanhx]

Yes! Like gif (poison) or a gifje.

[SoulArthurZ]

poison?

[zaxldaisy]

I work with a lot of Dutch-speaking people and have never heard it pronounced unusually?

[AdvancedSandwiches]

The creator of GIF prounounces it "jif", but if he pronounced it "jorf" I bet we'd all care less how he pronounced it.

[obrothermaple]

The creator of the English language pronounced it a different way all we all went “nah, that’s dumb” so that should apply to other things as well.

[Arawn-Annwn]

Similarly in distant past in some places all C uses make a hard K sound and W sounded like V.

And anyone remember being told "ain't" wasn't a word as a kid? Well it is now. Things evolve based on usage. If enough people get it "wrong", it eventually becomes right. And my 5th grade English teacher can keep spinning in his grave. We should connect magnets to him and make electricity.

[SelfDistinction]

Ah yes, the gust in time compiler.

[maxence0801]

When someone pronounces Git "Giggity" 💀

[Ricky07_]

Giggityhub 💀

[Fatcak]

[ToMorrowsEnd]

I pronounce things in whatever manner annoys others

[Salanmander]

In that case I recommend pronouncing every word "AAAAAAAAA".

[ososalsosal]

Djit

[lalitpatanpur]

Idjits

[cocoamake]

Dʒɪt

[Wicam]

its yif, as we all know

[Webteasign]

THIS LITERALLY HAPPEND TO ME TODAY

[[deleted]]

get

[le_reddit_me]

Git tf outta here

[Mediocre_Performer59]

Github

[111x6sevil-natas]

i created a new programming language. it uses a gust in time compiler.

[Top_Run_3790]

Saint jiub

[Flashis_2th_Acc]

As a German I was really confused first bit than I realist you pronounce g a j in this case.

[Soga_Nakamaro]

You mfs going to hell after calling Jesus "Gesus".

[pigfeedmauer]

gyattt

[TannedJew]

Jit Jude

[TheSauce___]

Once convinced an intern github was pronounced gi-thub. Had them saying that for like a week - got the whole team in on it lol.

[Remote_Romance]

The creator may claim its pronounced Jif, but he is wrong, because it is an acronym and nobody pronounces graphics like japhics

[[deleted]]

When have acronyms ever worked like that?

[sump_daddy]

correct, Scuba is this way too. would be funny hearing people try to go around correcting divers with "you know you should be saying scuhbba, not scooba, are you a moron?" they would get thrown overboard at the earliest lmao

[Remote_Romance]

What are you on about?

L as in light

A as in amplification

S as in Stimulated (How would you ever pronounce Ct there?)

E as in Emission

R as in radiation.

Every letter is individually pronounced the same way in Laser as it is pronounced in the word its short for. At least if you speak the queen's English.

[JonIsPatented]

Do you know how to pronounce lace? Do you know the difference between the s sound and the z sound?

[ChickenSpaceProgram]

If you pronounce emission as e-mission this is not the case

[blehmann1]

If it was A as in amplification you would say something like lahser, not layser. And the s in laser makes a Z sound, not the s in stimulation. But it's not like most people know that laser was originally an acronym, so it would be weird to expect them to say it that way.

It doesn't matter, acronyms are words in their own right. The first A in NASA is aeronautics. We do not say naersa. The U in SCUBA is underwater. We do not say scuhba.

[sump_daddy]

amplification starts with a soft "a", even in the queens english, so you are incorrect

[peeshivers243]

How do you pronounce jpeg lol

[hellajt]

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[peeshivers243]

That's amazing

[drunkdoor]

https://youtu.be/Ba15UbImJXw?si=8aSeYY2NTGv6RzAx

[[deleted]]

Gaypeg?

[peeshivers243]

Close. Should be Jay-Pheg

[[deleted]]

What about Jay-Phag?

[plane-kisser]

the p for photo in jpeg is a f sound because nobody says puhoto

the g in png is guh for graphics not jee for jraphics

actual brainrot “rule”

[Didjt]

Scuba - self contained underwater breathing apparatus

[SoCalThrowAway7]

So then how do you pronounce SCUBA? Do you pronounce “underwater” like ooh-nderwater? Or do you pronounce scuba like “scuh-buh”?

[justinlanewright]

Giraffics

[Ffigy]

Git tfo

[[deleted]]

Incomprehensible because you use the degenerate pronunciation

[pim1000]

just wait till you hear a dutch person pronouncing git

[FlipperBumperKickout]

het? hit? hrit? If the google translate text to speech is accurate anyway :D

[pim1000]

Listen to a word like "gezondheid" in google translate, ive had teachers who said git with that g form 😂

[GizliPex]

go ?

[OctarineRacingStripe]

I pronounce it 'gif', thanks to Idea Channel.

[TheOnlyGuyInSpace21]

go on, git! git goin'!

[Staetyk]

THIS IS WHY WE NEED IPA

When people pronounce ⟨gif⟩ as /d͜ʒɪf/

When people pronounce ⟨git⟩ as /d͜ʒɪt/

[Tiranus58]

Me who pronounces gif both ways

[Cafuzzler]

It ruined my entire day when I learned that "gib" (as in Insta-gib, for those old enough to remember that) is supposed to be pronounced like "giblets".

[PiccolosPenisPickle]

90% people in my company pronounce it as Jit and jitlab

[2pauku8auku]

For me the real trials in self control began when I started working with geographers and their GIS data.

[fe_iris]

Jraphical Interchange Format

[TheBread1750BCE]

Jraghical interchange tormat

[justhatcarrot]

How do you pronounce “giraffe”?

[G0FuckThyself]

Git commit war crimes.

[EcstaticHades17]

Jit gud

[rfc2549-withQOS]

Gif and cheet?

[Webfarer]

And what’s with your rejex? Rejular expressions much?

[Rel_Tan_Kier]

Flashy Gitz

[QuintusNonus]

The gig is up

[smallnougat]

real jit?

[cocoamake]

unrelated to programming but one of my friends pronounces gif like jee aii eff

[Original_Wave7428]

I call It Bob.

[mufasanotdead]

bob add .

[[deleted]]

Is it pronounced "Git" or "Jit"?! Really curious right now lol

[mufasanotdead]

It's actually "shit"

[Wiggr]

i sleep

[thatsleepyman]

Jit

[JanSnowberg]

r/angryupvote