AS the digital sphere develops and changes, we’ve seen new words enter our vocabulary pretty regularly.
Take the likes of meme, emoji or photobomb – all words none of us had ever heard, let alone said, just a few years ago.
But not all of them are easy to get your tongue around, and even though it’s been around for quite a while now, it actually turns out many of us have been saying ‘gif‘ wrong.
The creator of the Graphic Interchange Format – that’s what it stands for by the way – has revealed it’s actually pronounced “jif”.
Speaking to the New York Times, Steve Wilhite said he was “annoyed” there was still a debate over how to say the acronym.
The retired software engineer also said that the Oxford English Dictionary was wrong to say it could be pronounced with a hard “g” and a “j”.
In 2013, Wilhite was awarded the lifetime achievement prize at The Webby Awards and during the ceremony, screens were emblazoned with the message: “It’s pronounced ‘Jif'”.
He developed the file format in 1987 while working at the internet service provider Compuserve and during a time of slow dial-up connections.
Wilhite used a data compression technique which allowed images to be sent at much faster speeds than ever before.
His invention meant that the company was able to offer customers the ability to download colour pictures rather than only black-and-white.
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In later years, the Jpeg format would take its place as the better format for compressing photographs, however gifs have still remained popular.
In marking 25 years of the gif back in 2012, the Webby Awards said: “Despite developments in moving image and animation technology on the Web, the GIF remains a staple among image formats used to spread news and information.
“The proliferation of the GIF within today’s meme-powered, Tumblr-driven pop culture, proves it a lasting format still among the most celebrated on the Web (despite the hotly contested controversy over its correct pronunciation).”
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