• palordrolap@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    All English words that start “gif-” (and for that matter “giv-”) have a hard g.

    While English is well known for a mess of exceptions, GIF has, or had, no precedent for soft G, so you’ll forgive people for thinking that the choice of soft G on GIF is a little unusual and being rubbed the wrong way by it.