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Only a poser or a brown-noser would insist on a soft “S”, you hoser.
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True. He’d have been wrong if he changed the name later to a hard G.
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The debate keeps bringing this blast from the past to mind…
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You see, the pronunciation of the word “groundhog” proves that it’s a hard “g”!
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Exactly!
Except one is more right than the other.
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Pronounced exactly as Wilhite would have wished.
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“Jreedo shot first!”
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May he be at peace with Jod.
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Alas, words are pronounced how people agree to pronounce them, regardless of what’s “right” or what the creator / word-coiner intended.
The word fuchsia is my favorite example. It’s pronounced fyoo-sha, which is wrong. The word comes from the name of the plant, which was named after a German botanist, Leonhardt Fuchs (pronounced like “books”). If we were to pronounce fuchsia correctly, we’d say something like fooks-ee-ya.
In southern Oregon, there’s a creek called Windy Creek. The locals pronounce “windy” like “win-dee”, like the movement of air, like a windy day. If you travel along the creek, you notice that it has a lot of twists and turns. It winds around the local area. It’s a very “wine-dee” creek. But no one pronounces it that way.
Jif may be the intended pronunciation. But if everyone calls it gif, well… /shrug
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Jif Gif
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Boingers are some pedantic opinionated MFers.
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And it’s “jif”. Anyone who says otherwise is wrong. (I don’t actually care, I just want in on the fun)
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I had high hopes for this thread and it’s exceeded all of them.
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And Gesus! Don’t forget Gesus!
GOP is not an acronym though, it’s an initialism, like VIP - you are saying the letters, not pronouncing it as a word (which if you did would be “gawp”, “gohp”, or “gowp” with a hard G. And now “gawp” is how I am going to say GOP from now on}
Actually, Jreedo was shot with a blaster. Totally different
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