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[Augustus]

Something else which really gets my is the way some people pronounce diplodocus

I say it's dip-luh-dough-cuss and certainly not dih-plod-uckus. People who say dih-plod-uckus should be hurled into the sea by a trebuchet.

People who pronounce gif as jif can join them.

 

[ADigitalArtist]

Something else which really gets my is the way some people pronounce diplodocus

I say it's dip-luh-dough-cuss and certainly not dih-plod-uckus. People who say dih-plod-uckus should be hurled into the sea by a trebuchet.

People who pronounce gif as jif can join them.

I agree on Diplodocus. Though the inventor of gif said it's pronounced as jif and most people are comfortable with the 'word of god' explanation even if it doesn't make sense due to the 'g' sound in 'graphics' being adopted for the acronym would make it 'gif.'

Going back to dinosaurs though, I see a little red when pterosaurs are called dinosaurs.

 

[Augustus]

I agree on Diplodocus. Though the inventor of gif said it's pronounced as jif and most people are comfortable with the 'word of god' explanation even if it doesn't make sense due to the 'g' sound in 'graphics' being adopted for the acronym would make it 'gif.'

I know he said it's jif, but far wiser people have since decided that he was clearly wrong and, in fact, it is obviously pronounced gif.

- Hi chaps, I've invented a cool new video format.
+ Wow, that's great, what's it called.
- A jif, you know, as in graphics interchange format.
+ *prolonged and highly embarrassed silence*
- Chaps? Chaps?
+ ..............