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- Path: sparky!uunet!rei2!fox
- From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
- Subject: Re: G-I-F pronunciation
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.024821.18675@rei.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 02:48:21 GMT
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- References: <1gdsofINN4hs@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.
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- kevinm@ocf.berkeley.edu (Kevin Miller) writes:
-
- >A friend and I have a little wager, that I would like to get settled before
- >the end of the semester. How is G-I-F pronounced? Gif as in "Gift" without
- >the "t" or "Jif" as in the peanut butter?
-
- I pronounce it the way Compuserve wants it pronounced ("Jif"), and just
- about everyone else in my office pronounces it as "Giff" with a hard-G
- sound.
-
- I put this in the same category as the "tomato/tomato" pronunciation
- problem, i.e. "Let's call the whole thing off."
-
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