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the only wrong answers to the "how is gif pronounced" debate are the ones that assert only one acceptable pronunciation exists. prescriptive linguistics goes against how language works

now if you'll excuse me, i'm going to go back to pronouncing it the most natural way: with a voiced velar fricative and rhyming with knife

@typhlosion oh thank god someone else who knows about / uses the zhaif pronunciation

@lunalapin not zh so much as... like the ch in scottish loch but voiced

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