Trivia: How to pronounce "gif"

[Laurence Horn]

And now the great (/dZreit/?) debate has made it into the Times:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/battle-over-gif-pronunciation-erupts/

I particularly like this Charlton-Heston-snowclonic response:

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“You can have my hard ‘G’ when you pry it from my cold, dead hands,” Tracy Rotton, a Web developer from Washington, D.C., wrote on Twitter.
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…although it does seem as though it would be from Rotton's cold hard velum that Wilhite will be prying it.

LH

On May 21, 2013, at 9:47 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> http://goo.gl/SjDMW
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> -Wilson
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> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -Mark Twain
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