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[-] Schmeckinger@feddit.de 10 points 10 months ago

That is not how acronyms work tho.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

It kinda is. Unless you have a REALLY good reason not to, you pronounce the letters in the same way as you would if you were saying the whole word.

There is no such reason in this case.

[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 6 points 10 months ago

No it isn't, you pronounce an acronym as if it was its own word. The A and O in NATO are pronounced nothing like the ones in Atlantic and Organisation.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Its own word starting with the same letter variant as the first component word.

[-] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Gif stands for "graphics interchange format", or a graphics card. You don't call it a jraphics card or a yraphics card.

[-] bastian_5@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

Joint Photographic Expert Group. Do you pronounce the image format Jfeg?

I agree it's hard g gif, but your logic is flawed.

[-] SimplyATable@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Scuba, and laser are other examples where you're wrong

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