Petty rant

[owlmoose]

I don't know why this bothers me so much, but I am so, so tired of this idea that pronouncing "gif" as "jif" is the most ridiculous thing ever "because it starts with a G".

Giraffe, gin, ginger, gigantic, gif.

Both are legitimate pronunciations, arrived at by different linguistic reasoning, so can we please just accept that and move on, instead of flooding Tumblr with stupid text posts and macros and other nonsense?

Comments

[radish]

Soon enough spoken language will cease to be used anywhere on Earth, and it won't matter how our ancestors pronounced anything at all.

[owlmoose]

But then how will we know how to say it in our heads? :)