• vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    it’s an acronym (as opposed to initialisms, which are not pronounced as a single word). There is no rule on pronunciation.

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    We don’t do this for any other acronym. There is no rule about the pronunciation. It’s arbitrary. The creator chose “jif”, so that’s the “canonical” one.