It didn't require the imprimatur of The New York Times to resolve the GIF pronunciation debate, nor will the paper's assertion on Tuesday actually resolve it. But the war is won, even if the battle ...

There is a big debate on the proper pronunciation. When you want to ask someone if they liked the GIF that you sent, how do you say it out loud? Most of us have heard it spoken a couple of different ...

The peanut butter brand sounds different than a term for animated looping images GIF, GIPHY, Jif. Chances are you read those three terms differently, but you know exactly how you think it should sound ...

Few linguistic debates have raged on more consistently than the one surrounding the proper pronunciation of the acronym, GIF. Fortunately, YouTuber and maker of things Tom Scott produced a video ...

Out of all of the questions that have plagued the Internet, the question of how to pronounce “GIF” has a special and frustrating place in people’s hearts. Short for Graphics Interchange Format, the ...

How is language evolving on the internet? In this series on internet linguistics, Gretchen McCulloch breaks down the latest innovations in online communication. But why are we so confused? Why is each ...

How do you pronounce GIF? Well today, it feels like The Internet—yeah, all of it—is about to read the New York Times the riot act over that very question. And so on. Note that some of them are taking ...

If it weren’t for Andy Milonakis tweeting that “choosy web designers choose GIF,” I’d never be able to remember how to pronounce the damned file extension. Are Andy and I really pronouncing it ...

With that in mind, it seems almost impossible to endorse a twee, self-aware marketing gimmick seemingly designed to whip up debate on social media. Yet, here we are! Today, Giphy and the peanut butter ...

We can’t settle iPhone vs. Android or “Star Wars” vs. “Star Trek” for you. But we can settle another long-running geek debate: Those short, animated loops that have captivated the Web for decades?

And so on. But the thing is? The Times is right. The first GIF I ever made, which, lamentably, isn't currently online, was of breakdancers. (It was sort of like the image at left, which is from this ...