Gif or Jif debate finally over?
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Gif or Jif debate finally over?
I really dont care either way, but thought id post it for anyone that does
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Interesting. The first reader comment made me laugh!
Although I'm not currently using a Mac, I did every day for 6 years. New avatar day. Gonna go dig up a new one.
Interesting. The first reader comment made me laugh!
First of all let me say that Mac zealots should be rounded up into cattle cars, gassed to death and incinerated to make certain there is no remaining genetic material that might infect the rest of the gene pool.
Although I'm not currently using a Mac, I did every day for 6 years. New avatar day. Gonna go dig up a new one.
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/what-is.htmlpatrikG wrote:is there a "MySequel vs MySQL"-Page as well?
at the bottom of the page.
straight from the horses mouth.The official way to pronounce “MySQL” is “My Ess Que Ell” (not “my sequel”), but we don't mind if you pronounce it as “my sequel” or in some other localized way.
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I'm gonna have to keep saying GIF.... If I try and say Jif it's gonna mess with my head cos I'll be thinking of the cream cleaner Jif (Now known as Cif) 
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Well if I'd written something big like GIF and there were varying pronounciations I would simply take the stance that "it doesn't matter how you say it as long we're all talking about the same thing". Mr TorvaldsGrim... wrote:That page is a pile of crap.
Who cares how the creators tell you to say the word? The English language dictates how we say things, not a bunch of programmers.
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Well I can honestly say I've never said a file extension out loud, but in my head I read a .gif as gif, with a hard g.
Why would it be jif
As someone else said, there used to be a kitchen cleaer called Jif that's now called Cif.
I also think MySQL is pronounced My Ess Que Ell, but .jpg as Jay Peg, but that might be because of the alternate extension .jpeg.
It's weird though, because thinking about it, I would pronounce the World of Warcraft abbreviation WoW, as the word wow. Same with Call of Duty, I would pronounce the abbreviation CoD as the word cod, with Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, MoH:AA I would pronounce it Mo Har.
Why would it be jif
I also think MySQL is pronounced My Ess Que Ell, but .jpg as Jay Peg, but that might be because of the alternate extension .jpeg.
It's weird though, because thinking about it, I would pronounce the World of Warcraft abbreviation WoW, as the word wow. Same with Call of Duty, I would pronounce the abbreviation CoD as the word cod, with Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, MoH:AA I would pronounce it Mo Har.