The "i" in Linux and Linus have different pronunciations even when they shouldn't.

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it's jif. every argument for gif is wrong, and it sounds awkward af, like you got swiped by candlejack mid-wor

Jraphics Interchange Format.

we say jay-peg for jpeg, pee en gee for png, and ay tee em for atm. none of these are based on the pronunciation of the words they represent.

Most of those are the way I commonly hear, except I've always heard PNG pronounced "ping".

So Scuba is pronounce Skuh-bah then, right? Since it's Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus.

People know what a GIF is. So I use GIF. It's worked out fine so far.