Actually, the G in GPU stands for Giraffe. Hardware has gotten quite sophisticated over the years, and are no longer optimized for rendering triangles. If you can render a giraffe you can render anything.
Gotta say, pronouncing it as /dʒɪf/ is just top tier trolling. Everyone knows that /ɡɪf/ is the only one that actually makes sense, but some people intentionally choose to pronouns it wrong anyway. Steve Wilhite saw an opportunity to leave his mark on the world by trolling the hell out of everything, so he took it. Who could resist an opportunity like that.
The guy who created gif says jif, so that one, for starters. I’m sure you say CD-ROM in a way that rhymes with rom-com (side note, rom is wrongly a short O here too) with a short O, yet ROM stands for Read Only Memory. Or do you say See Dee Rome? Maybe with a Spanish background, but not English. Similar with PIN, I for identification but no one says pine. GIMP photo software stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program. Whether you say Gee Enn Yoo or GNU, GIMP isn’t said a way that matches. The G in GLaDOS is for genetic. PAL (TV) is for Phase Alternating Line. PHAT, pretty hot and attractive. 50% of any time a Q is involved.
JPEG. Joint Photographic Experts Group. SCUBA. If it followed the pronunciation of the component words it would sound like “scubba”. LASER. That’s just off the top of my head.
My issue with gif and graphical
They’re the same G.
J-spot
Gotta buy a new JPU for better Jrafix
Aint nothin but a J thang baby
Actually, the G in GPU stands for Giraffe. Hardware has gotten quite sophisticated over the years, and are no longer optimized for rendering triangles. If you can render a giraffe you can render anything.
Gotta say, pronouncing it as /dʒɪf/ is just top tier trolling. Everyone knows that /ɡɪf/ is the only one that actually makes sense, but some people intentionally choose to pronouns it wrong anyway. Steve Wilhite saw an opportunity to leave his mark on the world by trolling the hell out of everything, so he took it. Who could resist an opportunity like that.
Just remind yourself that the pronunciation of an acronym is completely unrelated to the pronunciation of the component words.
Example?
The guy who created gif says jif, so that one, for starters. I’m sure you say CD-ROM in a way that rhymes with rom-com (side note, rom is wrongly a short O here too) with a short O, yet ROM stands for Read Only Memory. Or do you say See Dee Rome? Maybe with a Spanish background, but not English. Similar with PIN, I for identification but no one says pine. GIMP photo software stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program. Whether you say Gee Enn Yoo or GNU, GIMP isn’t said a way that matches. The G in GLaDOS is for genetic. PAL (TV) is for Phase Alternating Line. PHAT, pretty hot and attractive. 50% of any time a Q is involved.
I’m not going to believe a troll. He’s just seeing if he get away with fucking with people
Get down from your giant giraffe and ride a high horse like everyone else. Or do you say “high” with a “g” like “gift”?
The exceptions likely have etymological explanations. Note that they’re exceptions – the norm is that word-initial G make a G sound and not a J sound.
When we steal a word and its spelling from another language, that’s how we get exceptions.
When someone invents a word and changes the rules, that’s how we spot a troll.
So what you’re saying is the creator of a word can define its pronunciation that supercedes the current language’s rules?
French doesn’t have a creator
FBI In not I like pie CIA Same SCUBA u like you, not I u like under
FBI And CIA are initialisms not acronyms
True, but the point still applies. Lol, fomo, etc. I’d.say it applies to more than it doesn’t.
JPEG. Joint Photographic Experts Group. SCUBA. If it followed the pronunciation of the component words it would sound like “scubba”. LASER. That’s just off the top of my head.
But the f is for format