pronounciation: "router"

[az]

What's wrong with calling GIFs jiffs? It's much quicker. How do you pronounce www? JPG? (Jay-peg or jay-pee-gee?) http://?

[Dr Mordrid]

giff

double-you double-you double-you

jay-peg

aitch-tee-tee-pee -colon- slash-slash

[jms]

jiff, never heard that one before

[az]

We pronounce it giff here (g like in gate).

[Gurm]

giff

double-you double-you double-you

jay-peg

aitch-tee-tee-pee -colon- slash-slash

Truth.

[Gurm]

We pronounce it giff here (g like in gate).

Yup, most people do. But there's this contingent that insists that the G is soft. Like "gentle" or "geronimo" or "gigolo".

[Jessterw]

That contingent just happens to include the inventors of the format

Then again, I've always pronounced it like 'gift' and there's only been one person I've run into that used that 'jif' pronunciation.

[Fat Tone]

Wasn't GIF something like Graphics Interchange Format, so its a hard G from Graphics.

We've had convo's about www before. My favourite was 'weeweewee' but of course I can't use it. I tend to us 'dubya dubya dubya' when the audiences knows precisely what I mean.

And its 'aitch tee tee pee colon forwardslash (thats the one on the right, no, on the right) forwardslash again'

[Jessterw]

Wasn't GIF something like Graphics Interchange Format, so its a hard G from Graphics.

That's the logical assumption, but programmers are sometimes less than logical when naming things. It was supposed to reference peanut butter, hence the 'JIF' pronunciation. There was even a GIF viewing/manipulation program called 'GIFFY'.

The fact that most people pronounce it with a hard G negates any intended pronunciation the inventors had in mind.

[Nowhere]

Hmmm...I have so crappy En skills that I'm not sure how I speak this "router" thing...anyone can tell me? (attachment)
(and BTW, this pronounciation is rather common here)

[Jammrock]

http://209.161.33.50/dictionary/router

Click on the red speaker icon next to the main entry. That's pretty much how the IT world in the US pronounces it.

[Fat Tone]

Yeah Nowhere, your skillz are so bad we should all start using Polish instead

[Fat Tone]

That's pretty much how the IT world in the US pronounces it.

Rauder?

[az]

Stop reading my mind, Tony!

[Jammrock]

Rauder?

That done be pretty darnded close to'n how we say'z it. Though the 't' is less 'd' for most people.