How to pronounce the word GIF

How to pronounce the word GIF

Attribution: David Szakaly. Recently it has become trendy to pronounce the CompuServe image file format GIF as gift without the ‘t’. The inventor of the file format, Steve Wilhite, pronounces it as Jiff, like the peanut butter. “The creators of the format pronounced GIF as “jif” with a soft “G” /ˈdʒɪf/ as in “gin”. Steve…