Trivia: How to pronounce "gif"

[Herb Stahlke]

Clearly, since the Pre-OE form was *gu:fi, the PDE pronunciation would not
have palatalized.

Herb


On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> And now the great (/dZreit/?) debate has made it into the Times:
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> http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/battle-over-gif-pronunciation-erupts/
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> 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.
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> LH
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> On May 21, 2013, at 9:47 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> > http://goo.gl/SjDMW
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